id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
folklorica-3802	Hornjatkevyč, Andrij	The Kobza and the Bandura: A Study in Similarities and Contrasts	2021	15	.pdf	application/pdf	4281	271	72	Instruments of this type can be found throughout Eurasia (and beyond) from the Japanese biwa, the Chinese p’i p’a, through the sitar and tambura of the Indian subcontinent, to the ūd of Mesopotamia and far beyond, and to various lutes, theorbos and mandolins of Central and Southern Europe Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus program notes from the 1950s stated that the word “kobza” is of Turkic origin, suggesting that instrument came to Ukraine from Asia and was brought by the innumerable nomads that appeared in the Ukrainian steppes.	cache/folklorica-3802.pdf	txt/folklorica-3802.txt