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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"
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 ...
A bandura (Ukrainian: бандура) 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.
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 ...
Lira – a Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy with an oval or cello-shaped body and an attached triangular pegbox. Hudok – a three-stringed, pear-shaped Ukrainian bowed instrument which is usually held vertically, a relative of rebec. Husli – one of the oldest known Ukrainian musical instruments, described by the Greeks as early as the 6th century CE ...
Sopilka (сопілка ⓘ, Ukrainian: Cопiлка) is a name applied to a variety of woodwind instruments of the flute family used by Ukrainian folk instrumentalists. [1] Sopilka most commonly refers to a fife made of a variety of materials (but traditionally out of elderberry or viburnum wood) and has six to ten finger holes. [2]
The dentsivka (Ukrainian: Денцівка) is a woodwind musical instrument with a fipple (mouthpiece). [1] In traditional instruments, the tuning varies with the length of the tube. It is made in a variety of different sizes: the piccolo (tuned in F), prima (in C), alto (in G), tenor (in F), and bass (in C).
The trembita (from the old Germanic trumba, "to trumpet", in Ukrainian трембíта) is a type of an alpine horn made of wood. It is common among Ukrainian highlanders Hutsuls who live in western Ukraine, eastern Poland, Slovakia, and northern Romania.