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 Here is what a reliable source says., Mauricio Molina's book Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula says ""10 While it is also possible that the term pandero derived from the latin adjective pandus (curved, bent), the most current theory based on phonetic development from Latin to Spanish sustains that the word pandero comes instead from pandura pandorius. It also has been explained that the term pandura itself derived from the Sumarian pandur or pardur (little bow), which suggests that the pandura was an instrument that evolved fiom some kind of musical bow.  However, these words are never used in theSumerian literature in connection with musical instruments. See H G Farmer. ""An Early Greek Pandorw,"" in The Science of Music in Islam. ed Ehckhard Neubauer (Frankfurt Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. 1997), 2/301. Organologists have commonly identified the pandura as a kind of Greco-Roman lute Their conjecture is based on the description by Pollux of Naucratis (second century A. D) of the instrument us a tricHOEdon (instalment of three strings) The panSuta is rarely found in GrWco-Roman literature or musical iconography. It was comprised of a long, thick fingerboard and a small resonating body. Representations in late Roman sarcophagi indicate that the instrumet had three strings or more and was plucked with either fingers or a plectrum, It is also important to take into consideration that both Marcianus Capella and Isidore of Seville identify the pandorius with a wind instrument made out of cane. Isidore, quoting Virgil (Eel. 2.321, further ascribes the instrument's invention to the god Pan. and"" - so the article title is ok, just the content is rubbish. )   "