Post musical instruments commonly used in your country's folk/traditional music & songs

[Atlantic Islander]

Post musical instruments commonly used in your country's folk/traditional music & songs. Regional is also fine.

[alb0zfinest]

The lahute
http://www.stansherer.com/images/lahute.jpg
Qyfteli
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Ciftelia.jpg

[Skerdilaid]

Fyell
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kaval.gif/220px-Kaval.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Fyell.jpg

[Gauthier]

The most typical in Northern Mexico is the accordion, snare drum, spanish guitar, string bass, guitar basss and a drum set.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ODZkFWfVs



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUfXTuTli5g

[SkyBurn]

In my ethnic culture:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Va9kGnC4fws/T5XAIeysA5I/AAAAAAABstc/o-4iUGAM3iI/s400/fiddler-on-the-roof1.jpg

In my home culture:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tWeyDU_DRng/TWAhSpcvM8I/AAAAAAAAABc/0i320rRUqPU/s320/beer.jpg

[Ianus]

Mandolino
http://www.virtualsorrento.com/risorse/images/musica/mandno.jpg

Fisarmonica
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Black_Piano_Acccordion.jpg/629px-Black_Piano_Acccordion.jpg

[Baldur]

http://agentcoop.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/arto-jarvela1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Violin_VL100.jpg/381px-Violin_VL100.jpg

[Aladdin]

Dombra:

http://saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com/gakki/gakki_image/dombra.jpg

Kopuz:

http://www.gs.kunitachi.ac.jp/collectiondb/dbpc/ppc0899.jpg

[Atlantic Islander]

Viola da Terra

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/8337/ccku.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img163/5917/ez5x.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img706/9435/l3vv.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF08xem79hQ

basic fiddle

http://imageshack.us/a/img560/6315/l3tq.jpg

[Graham]

Excluding the Bagpipes & drums. Folk music is mostly just like this in the Scottish scene..


http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000029203492-qn3t58-original.jpg?ca77017https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/941934_10151554078706056_706920408_n.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/947317_10151553793356056_2013265519_n.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/292309_10151548062451056_663198004_n.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/575566_10151519102146056_517571783_n.jpghttps://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/247007_10150189170511056_4323696_n.jpghttps://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/28392_391154366055_3057826_n.jpg

[Aurora]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UurHbXwVo04

[el22]

Clarinet is the main instrument + tambourine, fisarmonica, guitar and sometimes violin.

http://www.skymusic.com.au/images/products/5345.jpg

[Atlantic Islander]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX1MpnXw56I

[hisn]

A membrane placed over a water-holding vessel makes use of the special sound-conducting qualities of water. The amount of water in the vessel affects the resultant pitch. This type of instrument appears to be a unique invention of Indigenous cultures in the Americas.. In the 1600s that culture's musicians decided the sound of the metal vessel and the wooden vessel, although completely different, complemented each other beautifully.
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/Buffalo/images/pf025577.jpghttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/19368/19368-h/images/figures/fig12.jpg

[Alboz]

http://albjeshua.com/ballina/wp-content/uploads/video-gallery/Kenge-lavdimi/thumbs/thumbs_kenge-me-qifteli-per-jezusin.png


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZ4Zd_bROo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/Gzim/1lahuta.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jmSyfSeBEk

http://libarynth.org/_media/gaida.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmuwzIJvRjo

[lI]

One of the world's oldest music instruments - jaw harp:

The Lithuanian version


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVZHXmJdX0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZKF1334IA



Together with Baltic zither/psaltery (kanklės):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An20KK2QHsY

[Gorštak]

The šargija originated in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the rule of Ottoman Empire, and is played by Bosniaks, Albanians, Serbs and Croats. Its original four strings have been increased to six or even seven. The šargija usually accompanies the violin, and has a jangling sound, similar to the Turkish saz. The sharki (or sargija) is a similar instrument as the two-string qiftelia, but with more strings and looking more like a primitive saz. Spelling is sometimes: sarkia or sharki or sharkia. Usually there are three courses of metal strings. The frets are often inlayed metal frets, in a non-western pattern. Body could be made from separate staves, or carved from one piece of wood.

The šargija is used by the Bosnians in Bosnian root music. The tamburica/tambura is mostly associated with Croats and some Serbs.


http://www.zaslike.com/files/hu5nba2sdicqd4fg5.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3CmnJAKZ8I

[Blackout]

http://s22.postimg.org/ptwmeksap/Instrument.jpg

[HispaniaSagrada]

sfsdsffs

[lI]

Here's something Ūber Lithuanian:

Wooden horns (or trumpets, whichever way you prefer) from Aukštaitija which are used for playing polyphonic tunes, their length can be up to 1,5m

http://imageshack.us/a/img560/9991/acdo.png


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXPZYuU-xzU


In Latvia the same instrument was called taure and it was used in the same context as the Lithuanian ragai - wedding, herding, war signaling, except that the Latvian melodies were not polyphonic like the Lithuanian ones were.

[inactive_member]

Instruments


http://s23.postimg.org/71bqzpyi3/6fc8_W6_SGTpw.jpg


Tambourine - Buben


http://s13.postimg.org/65tquj8zr/18002_398894430209856_98816741_n.jpg



Bagpipe - Duda


http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3659/originalfz.jpg





This is an old Belarusian instrument Surma - Trumpet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIOJszs7Uc#t=51m27s


http://s8.postimg.org/z1wj7w211/9168146_w640_h640_dnitdyqpmik.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

[Vlach]

Romanian wooden flute from Transylvania:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA8dVL0pEhw

[Minel]

This is a video about the Jarana and the Requinto in Son Jarocho from Mexico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql-KhyKN0Oo
Something else that's used a lot is the harp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my6UhqLubmQ
There are also diverse types of flutes used in more amerindian type of music as can be heard here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6x5mGIH7A

[lI]

Here's something Ūber Lithuanian:

Wooden horns (or trumpets, whichever way you prefer) from Aukštaitija which are used for playing polyphonic tunes, their length can be up to 1,5m

http://imageshack.us/a/img560/9991/acdo.png


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXPZYuU-xzU


In Latvia the same instrument was called taure and it was used in the same context as the Lithuanian ragai - wedding, herding, war signaling, except that the Latvian melodies were not polyphonic like the Lithuanian ones were.
This is an old Belarusian instrument Surma - Trumpet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIOJszs7Uc#t=51m27s


http://s8.postimg.org/z1wj7w211/9168146_w640_h640_dnitdyqpmik.jpg (http://postimage.org/)What's the etymology of that word? Does it also mean "a horn"?




Anyway, some more of it, just cause it's so awesome :cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGn-6iFAmY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiKA77pJadU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJpOvIUzY0c




Might as well add a tribute to the Baltic zither:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_psaltery
The term Baltic psaltery refers to a family of related box-zither string instruments found generally in the vicinity of the Baltic Sea.

These instruments include:


Kantele (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele) (Finland and Karelia)
Harpu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpu) (Sápmi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1pmi_%28area%29))
Kannel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannel_%28instrument%29) (Estonia)
Kanklės (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kankl%C4%97s) (Lithuania)
Kokle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokle) (Latvia)
Gusli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusli) (Belarus, Russia)
Kusle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusle) (Volga-Finnic Mari people of Russia)


The Lithuanian version:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1391831_249995368486054_433355922_n.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-zFsC_svA

Something curious:
There is a mysterious link between Ainu (the indigenes of Japan) and Lithuanian cultures. Not only do their traditional forms of polyphony, certain ways of performing but also certain peculiarities of music development as well as of the text coincide - just like Lithuanian multipart songs, the living tradition of the Ainu polyphony was on the brink of disappearance at the end of the 20th century but has since experienced a revival.

Here's a splendid study of the parallels between Lithuanian Multipart Songs and Ainu Polyphonic Songs (an abstract in the first page & a summary in the last page are available in English):
http://lmta.lt/<wbr>get.php?item=f&id=7643
(http://lmta.lt/get.php?item=f&id=7643)https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1471761_262598590559065_108992399_n.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA8vQxMNhQc

[Siberian Cold Breeze]

yaren :interesting triple instrument made of tanbura, bağlama cura`created by Özay Gönlüm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkBiBlPIirk


sipsi : smallest 15–25 flut like instrument with unique voice


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lalBAR_Z2iM

kemençe


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-c_i2VtsE

not common but interesting steel tongue drum


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLpFT8U5T5U

[Hercus Monte]

The kanklės (pronounced [ˈkʌŋkles]) is a Lithuanian plucked string musical instrument (chordophone), of the zither family. The instrument is similar in construction and origin to the Latvian kokle, Estonian kannel and Finnish kantele.

http://www.folkeuropa.eu/strumenti/immagini/kankles.gif


a video of Kantele, that's basically the same thing just spelled a little differently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LVCaObqNAQ

[inactive_member]

What's the etymology of that word? Does it also mean "a horn"?

The name Surma maybe a loan word from Ukrainian, which entered Ukrainian from a Turkic language. The origin of the word is in Persian language. The meaning of the name in Persian is bankquet flute. The information from Ukrainian dictionary of etymology.


Wikipedia article provides additional information.



The word sorna is a Pahlavi derivative of sūrnāy (literally "strong flute"), which is a compand of 'sūr-'(strong) and '-nāy' (flute).[1] Possibly it was called "strong flute" due to its double-reed-construction rather than usual nāy, which was made of a single tube of cane. Also it is suggested that the first part of word of sorna, is from sūr- again from Pahlavi and New-Persian, meaning the "banquet, meal and feast", thus the "banquet-flute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorna

[Vlach]

Bucium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MzrXd8CUCg

The bucium (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈbut͡ʃjum], also called trâmbiţă or tulnic) is a type of alphorn used by mountain dwellers in Romania. Of Dacian origin[citation needed], it was used in the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia as signaling devices in military conflicts[citation needed]. The word is derived from Latin bucinum, originally meaning "curved horn", an instrument used by the Romans. The word is a cognate with English "bugle".

The tube is made from limetree bark, wood, or even (partially) from metal. It is mostly used by shepherds for signaling and communication in the forested mountains, as well as for guiding sheep and dogs. Trâmbiţa produces sounds altogether different from those of the alphorn.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucium

[Weedman]

Mandolin
43341

resonator guitar (slide guitar, acoustic)
43342

slide, steel acoustic guitar, #2
43343

Appalachian Dulcimer
43344

Banjo
43345

Blues Guitar
43346

acoustic guitar
43347

country fiddle (violin)
43348

this shit, here
43349

this shit-lol
43350

and this, too-lol
43351

[Weedman]

Celtic Carnyx music/noise sample:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carnyx.ogg


Celtic carnyx
war trumpet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnyx

pics-

43352


43353


43354

43355

43356

43357

43358

[lI]

Lithuanian multipart folk tunes played with pan flutes don't have any equivalents in the neighbouring countries. The most similar instruments to Lithuanian pan flutes are only found in Finland & Karelia (vyhellysputki), the lands of Komi people (kuima chipsan and pöliannez), Northernmost Russia (kuvikly/kugikly), Romania (fifa), Switzerland (tudele) and Central Africa.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SXYEuAov8

[Atlantic Islander]

Guitarra Portuguesa


https://vimeo.com/23961977

https://vimeo.com/26100592

[SardiniaAtlantis]

Launeddas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-hTLKj5mVo

[Atlantic Islander]

Flauta transversal, Bombo, Caixa


https://vimeo.com/33915283

[Atlantic Islander]

Viola da Terra, Guitarra, Bandolim


https://vimeo.com/33651792

[Hercus Monte]

The skrabalai is a Lithuanian folk tuned percussion instrument consisting of wooden bells. Trapezoid-shaped wooden troughs of various sizes in several vertical rows with one or two wooden or metal small clappers hanging inside them. It is played with two wooden sticks. When the skrabalai is moved a clapper knocks at the wall of the trough. The pitch of the sound depends on the size of the wooden trough.

The skrabalai is gouged from a piece of hard wood – oak or ash. The size of the troughs varies from small ones (7–12 cm. long, 5– cm. wide, 6–7 cm. high), to larger ones. The walls are 2–3 cm. thick. The skrabalai was used by shepherds from ancient times. They used to tie a wooden bell of this kind on a cow's neck, thus making it easier to find the animals in a forest if they strayed from the herd.





http://www.ethnicart.lt/images/stories/bu2.jpghttp://ansamblis-lietuva.lt/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Skrabalai1.jpeg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORgXqLDY2I

[Graham]

From Uist. Gaels.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7KU67XfGkY

[Atlantic Islander]

Gaita de Fole


https://vimeo.com/72880345