: an Asian musical instrument resembling a lute in construction but without frets and used to produce a drone accompaniment to singing
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThen the two improvised for twenty minutes or so over an Indian tamboura drone. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021 And there were instruments galore: Harpsichords, tamboura, Mellotron, harmonium, woodwinds, and a variety of guitars, pianos, and tambourines. William Goodman, Billboard, 26 May 2017