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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The video, which was circulated by Ukrainian diplomat Olexander Scherba, shows Ukrainians in Odesa "preparing fortifications & getting ready to fight" while listening to the New Jersey band's "It ...
Ukrainian girl moves stars to tears with viral video singing from Kyiv bunker ... The video, posted to Facebook by user Marta Smekhova, has garnered more than 86,000 likes and been watched 2.6 ...
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 ...