Post by larryg on May 21, 2018 20:12:00 GMT -5
I just obtained an old bandura from my sister-in-law's estate. I sent pictures of it to the Trembita factory in Lviv and they confirmed that it is of their manufacture, sometime in the 1970's. It has 41 treble and 17 bass strings. I've seen several posts online about how to tune the instrument, and have Victor Mishalow's instruction video, but I'm having a hard time making sense of the tuning. I understand that the lowest treble string is C# and that as is often pointed out, the tuning pegs are organized like the white and black keys on a piano. I further understand that. the "white" strings, the lower row of tuning pegs, are tuned to a G major scale. I'm having trouble understanding the tuning of the "black" strings, those whose tuning pegs are on the top row. It would be a huge help if someone could tell me how the first twelve treble strings are tuned. This should get me through the first octave and I can extrapolate from there. By the way, I live in north Georgia in the USA, near Chattanooga, and my sister-in-law lived in Bradford, Ontario, Canada. Thanks so much!
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