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Musical instruments characteristically found in the country of Ukraine and used by the Ukrainian people. Pages in category "Ukrainian musical instruments" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
Similarly, a "Kobzar" is a Ukrainian Folk singer and musician who may play the kobza, but who might also play other instruments instead, including the bandura. The internationally known kobzar Ostap Veresay (1803–1890), is today considered the foremost kobza player of the 19th century despite the fact that he referred to his instrument as a ...
A bandura (Ukrainian: бандура [bɐnˈdurɐ] ⓘ) is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument.It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza.
The bubon (Ukrainian: бубон) is a Ukrainian percussive folk instrument, of the tambourine family. The bubon consists of a wooden ring with a diameter of up to 50 centimetres (20 in) which has a skin (often from a dog) tightened over one or sometimes both sides.
Ukraine is also the rarely acknowledged musical heartland of the former Russian Empire, home to its first professional music academy, which opened in the mid-18th century and produced numerous early musicians and composers. [2] Modern Ukraine is situated north of the Black Sea, previously part of the Soviet Union. Several of its ethnic groups ...
Among the first concert tsymbaly to be manufactured in Ukraine were made by the Melnytse-Podilsk workshop in Western Ukraine by Vasyl Zuliak. These instruments had two pedals and were slightly smaller than the concert Hungarian instruments, although the range was the same. Zuliak later made three different types of instrument. Instruments were ...
The trembita is often used in Ukrainian ethnographic ensembles and as an episodic instrument in the Ukrainian folk instrument orchestra. The trembita was shown on 2004 Eurovision Song Contest by the Ukrainian winner of the contest Ruslana during her performance of the song "Wild Dances". Hutsuls playing trembitas. It is also used by Ukrainian ...
A soviet-made 4 string Ukrainian Domra Domra (left) and Bandola Llanera (right) The basic domra is tuned as follows: Three strings: EAD tuning. Four strings: GDAE tuning (like the mandolin or the violin) Instruments are made in various sizes including piccolo, prima, alto, tenor, bass, and contrabass. Piccolo: b1 e2 a2 [7] Prima: e1 a1 d2 [8]