3-028-709 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: Hindoo Tamboura, 1870. 'The tamboura, with strings of wire tuned by pegs, to be struck with a plectrum of tortoiseshell, or a vulture's feather, is common in Persia, Asiatic Turkey, Egypt, and Hindostan. It was known to the ancient Egyptians and Assyrians three thousand years ago'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.