The panduri is generally used to accompany solo heroic, comic and love songs, as well as dance.

The body of the panduri is usually made more in the shape of a spade, less often with a parallel sided endblock.

It is traditionally carved from a single block of wood, but a staved construction (like a lute) is also common.

[1][3] The panduri is a three-stringed lute from the highland and lowland regions of eastern Georgia, usually played by strumming, and often for choral and rhythmic support of vocal melody.

The second kind is the "chromatic" panduri, which has the same tonal divisions as a guitar and is capable of reproducing all the half-steps of the tempered Western scale.