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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.
The Ukrainian kobza was a traditionally gut-strung, lute-like stringed musical instrument with a body hewn from a single block of wood. Instruments with a staved assembly also exist. [ 3 ] The kobza has a medium-length neck which may or may not have tied-on frets, which were usually made of gut.
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 ...
It is common among Ukrainian highlanders Hutsuls who live in western Ukraine, eastern Poland, Slovakia, and northern Romania. In Poland it is known as a trombita (in the south), a bazuna (in the north), or a ligawka (in central Poland). Trembita is also one of the Ukrainian folk musical instruments.
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 ...
The zubivka (Ukrainian: Зубівка, Hungarian: Beregfogaras), also known as skosivka, skisna dudka, or frukanka, is considered one of the oldest folk wind instruments in Ukraine and is found primarily in the Carpathian region. It was first described by wandering Arabic scholars in the 11th century.
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).
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.