pandura

Pandura peak rises 516 meters above sea level.

It is possibly descended from the gittern and the earlier citole and pandura.

A musical instrument: tambour is a synonym for "pandura"

Pandura is located in the Calabazas ward.

In Afghanistan the pandura is called a dambura or dunbura, and is a popular folk instrument particularly among the Hazara people.

The second branch dealt with string instruments: among others the lyra, cithara, sambuca, cordae and pandura were reconstructed.

Instruments included the double-reed aulos and the plucked string instrument (like pandura), the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara.

The Pandura instrument played in Ancient Greece and some other ancient civilisations, from the Mediterranean basin.

It travelled through Byzantine Empire to other Europian countries and was called pandura, mandura, bandura, etc.

If you don't have time to follow this entire trail, at least drive along Route 3 south of Yabucoa to the area around the Cendro la Pandura peak.

Renato Meucci (1996) suggests that the some Italian Renaissance descendants of Pandura type were called chitarra italiana, mandore or mandola.

The name mandola may originate with the ancient pandura, and was also rendered as mandora, the change perhaps having been due to approximation to the Italian word for "almond".

August 1986, Labour councillor Pandura Perera cites SMG as example of political cell set up by GLC ostensibly as community group.

All these instruments are thought to derive their names originally from the ancient pandura (which term, once again, is found applied to a variety of stringed instruments in different regions at an early date).

The term bandura is generally thought to have entered the Ukrainian language via Polish, either from Latin or from the Greek pandora or pandura, although some scholars feel that the term was introduced into Ukraine directly from the Greek language.

It differed from the torban by the absence of a second peg box at the end of the neck and the lack of bass strings, and was closely related in its organology to central European mandora and other instruments descending from the pandura (also see lute).

According to the original plans, the route started at Cerro Las Mesas in Mayagüez, ran along the full length of the central mountains, including along parts of the length of the Sierra de Cayey to end at Cuchilla de Pandura, in Yabucoa.