Greek baglamas played in Bashkir dumbyra style - D g d tuning

The Bashkir dumbyra is closely related to both the Kazakh and the Kalmyk dombra (dombyra, dombira). It’s played in Bashkortostan (Bashkiriya) and the surrounding Ural mountains. The fretboard has metal frets in a chromatic pattern and equal temperament. It has a bowlback shape and is structurally identical to the Kazakh dombyra, but adds one treble string. It has three, rather than two strings. They are typically nylon. The tuning is D g d, or also C g c. The former tuning, we too know in Greek music as an old bouzouki interval called isios or isokratis. I am playing the smallest instrument of that family, the baglamas, here. It’s standard tuning is D(d) a(a) d(d), so either is very easy to tune down to. The dumbyra has the same percussive playing style with a lot of vibrato, but unlike the Kazakh dombra, which is always finger strummed, the Bashkir dumbyra is also at times played with a plectrum, especially by younger people. Though not the traditional choice and so not used by me here. Other, more distant relatives are the Russian domra, the Greek tambouras, Croatian tamburica, Ottoman tanbur, Indian tanpura, Afghan dambura and Iranian tamboor. The name is a variant of the word tambur/tabor, which denoted a wooden barrel or bowl in many languages at one point and became one of the most commonly used roots for a plucked lute. Itself a corruption of the pandur root, found in Ancient Greek as pandouris and in Sumerian as pantur. #tambouras