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Circa 1140 A.D., Sicily. Woman in Muslim clothes playing an hourglass drum, from a fresco in the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina. 970 A.D., Spain. Hourglass Drum in the Valcavado Beatus, folio 199V 1280 A.D., Spain. Woman in Muslim clothing playing an hourglass drum, Cantinas de Santa Maria, Codex of the Musicians, Cantiga 300. [30] Jew's harp ...
Catalan musical instruments (11 P) G. Galician musical instruments (1 C, 2 P) S. Spanish musical instrument makers (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Spanish musical ...
Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments". This article consists of a list of such instruments in the European tradition, including both instruments that are now obsolete and early versions of instruments that continued to be used in later classical music.
Rondalla Alginet, beginning 1900's. The rondalla has its origins in the folk playing bands from Spain that were forerunners of the present-day rondalla and included four types: groups of young men who played and sang regularly in front of homes, bands of musicians known as murza or murga who begged for alms, a group of musicians known as comparza who played on stage, and groups of university ...
An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
The vielle / v i ˈ ɛ l / is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a figure-8 shaped body.
Castanets seller in Granada, Spain Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1909 painting Dancing girl with castanets. Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, [1] Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese, Philippine, Brazilian, and Swiss music.
The Filipino bandurria (also banduriya [7]) is used in an orchestra of plucked string instruments called rondalla. It is tuned a step lower than the Spanish version, that is, low to high: F# B E A D G. [ 8 ] Filipino bandurrias have been made with coconuts, [ 9 ] and as banjoleles with banjo bodies and goatskin soundboards.