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  2. Greek musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the stringser from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era". Greek musical instruments can be classified into ...

  3. Bouzouki - Wikipedia

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    The first recording with the four-course instrument was made in 1956. [10] [11] The Irish bouzouki, with four courses, a flatter back, and differently tuned from the Greek bouzouki, is a more recent development, stemming from the introduction of the Greek instrument into Irish music by Johnny Moynihan around 1965.

  4. Baglamas - Wikipedia

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    Baglamas tuning. The baglamas (Greek: μπαγλαμάς Turkish: bağlama), plural baglamades) or baglamadaki (μπαγλαμαδάκι), a long necked bowl-lute, is a plucked string instrument used in Greek music; it is a smaller version of the bouzouki pitched an octave higher (nominally D-A-D), with unison pairs on the four highest strings and an octave pair on the lower D. Musically, the ...

  5. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body, derived from the Spanish tiple and other stringed instruments, made from carved wood with strings (ten, in five sets of two) of leather strips or dried animal gut 321.322: Rome, Ancient: tibiae [119] aulos (Greek name) Double-reed shawm, played paired 422.122 Russia: Garmon [120]

  6. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...

  7. Pontic Greek music - Wikipedia

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    Akrítas óndes élamnen, translated by Thede Kahl. Birds, including the eagle, were a common motif in Pontian folklore, and Greek folklore at large. One song, Aitén'ts eperipétanen ("An eagle flew high"), speaks of an eagle carrying the arm of an unknown soldier in its claws. The fallen soldier himself lies dead on the mountainside. The song is highly allegorical. Many Acritic songs from ...

  8. Tzouras - Wikipedia

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    The tzouras (Greek: τζουράς), is a Greek stringed musical instrument related to the bouzouki. Its name comes from the Turkish cura. It is made in six-string and eight-string varieties. Similar musical instruments in Turkish culture are generally referred to as Bağlama.

  9. Category:Greek musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Greek musical instruments" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...