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