[quote=D.D.;72775]Hello hayamburuk or Zarand
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What u have is a tambura called brač (brach, if u wanna pronounced it) also called basprim, in so called pear shape. The other shape is guitar shape, u have it on the picture above. Your tambura's tune is in G i assume, so the first string is G, second D, third A, and fourth E (that would be if it has a 4 string), but it seemes to me that u have three doubled strings so it's G, D, A (can't see it because of blur). This tune system is so called three-voice (or three tone, don't know how to translate it correctly) perfect 4th system. As u can see the intervals between this tones are perfect 4th, and three voice is because all tambura in the system had a three strings, and they were all in pear shape (except bas, bas or berda was in shape like contrabass). This tuning system is also called bački system, by area where it was developed. Bačka is geographical area in far west Serbia (Vojvodina), a part of Hungary, and a part of Croatia, above area called Srijem (i will tell u about Srijem later).
Thankyou, Hvala ti!
Yes, I have now seen images on njuskalo.hr of instruments very similar to mine
http://www.njuskalo.hr/trzalacki-ins...oglas-10586005
So I imagine my Brac is tuned G D A E then, it has six strings but the bridge and nut are made to take two doubles and two singles. At the moment I have it tuned EE BB F# C# but now I will buy some new strings from Croatia and tune it GG DD A E and see how it sounds.
In the meantime I have also had the instrument restored, new frets and glued together properly. It is very nice and I love it.