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Šargija
Balkan stringed instrument / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The šargija (Serbo-Croatian: šargija, шаргија; Albanian: sharki or sharkia), anglicized as shargia, is a plucked, fretted long necked lute used in the folk music of various Balkan countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, and North Macedonia.[1] The instrument is part of a larger family of instruments which includes the Balkan tambura and the saz (or tambura saz), tamburica,[2] and the tambouras.
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