bandura ne mai kayan aikin kirtani sananne sosai a tarihin kida Yukreniyanci Ya haɗu da abubuwa na zither da lute, wanda ya dogara da wanda ya gabace shi, kobza. Yawanci yana da igiyoyi 12 zuwa 68. Ana kiran mawaƙan da ke kunna ta banduristas.
Ambaton farko na lokacin bandura ya samo asali ne daga tarihin Poland na 1441, wanda ya tabbatar da cewa Sarkin Poland Sigismund III yana da wannan kayan aikin wanda aka sani da suna Taraszko wanda ya samo asali daga ƙabilar Ruthenian (Ukraine).
Kalmar bandura galibi an yi amannar cewa ta shiga yaren Yukren ne ta hanyar Poland, ko dai daga Latin ko daga Pandora na Girka ko pandura, kodayake wasu masana na ganin cewa an shigar da kalmar ne cikin Ukraine kai tsaye daga yaren Girka.
Har zuwa lokacin da aka ƙirƙira ƙirƙir ɗin a matsayin kayan aiki ga Francesco Landini, anan wasan Italiyan mai suna Luwani Trecento kuma mawaƙi. Irin wannan kayan aikin an yi rubuce rubuce kamar sun wanzu a cikin Ukraine a karnin da ya gabata.
A hannun Zaporozhian Cossacks, bandura ta sami manyan sauye-sauye, saboda ci gaban takamaiman takaddama. Saboda babbar rawa a matsayin kayan aiki don rakiyar murya, an tsara gini da dabara domin dacewa da waɗannan ayyuka.
Ta wannan hanyar, an kafa makarantu na musamman don makauniyar batanci, suna aza harsashi ga aji na mawaƙa masu yawon shakatawa da aka sani da kobzares. Zuwa karni na 18, kayan aikin sun zama tsari wanda ya kunshi kirtani hudu zuwa shida tare a wuya (tare da ko ba tare da frets ba) kuma iyakar igiyoyin igiya guda goma sha shida da ake kira prystrunky strung a ma'aunin diatonic akan lamarin.
Bandura ya wanzu a wannan yanayin kwata-kwata bai canza ba har zuwa ƙarshen ƙarni na 19.