Poltava style
The Poltava style of bandura playing is a midpoint between Kyiv style and Kharkiv style and is sometimes used with Kharkiv-style banduras, especially Poltavkas. The term is also sometimes used interchangeably with Kharkiv style. The bandura is held on the legs at approximately a 45-degree angle to the body. This gives the player the ability to comfortably play basses with the left hand and prystrunky with the right, as with the Kyiv style, but also to access all of the prystrunky with the left hand over the top. It also gives the player better visibility of the strings than Kharkiv style, which is more important for modern bandurists, who are not generally blind (unlike the traditional players, the kobzars). This style is very rarely used in Ukraine but is somewhat common in the diaspora.