bandore

Bandore, ban-dōr′, n. a musical instrument like a guitar, with three or more strings.

He also gave to "James Sands, my apprentice, the some of forty shillings and a citterne, a bandore, and a lute, to be paid and delivered unto him at the expiration of his terme of yeres in his indentur of apprenticehood."

Banjo is a negro corruption of O.E. bandore.

Then he played on another instrument which resembled a bandore or banjo and was named Sem Yim.

At all events, I had my banjo, the bandore's legitimate and lineal descendant, and the memory of Fionguala should have the love-ditty.