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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 ...
The Runik ocarina is a Neolithic flute-like wind instrument, and is the earliest prehistoric musical instrument ever recorded in Kosovo. [4] The modern European ocarina dates back to the 19th century, when Giuseppe Donati from Budrio , a town near Bologna, Italy , transformed the ocarina from a toy, which played only a few notes, into a more ...
Drawing of the mouthpiece of an aulos. [5]There were several kinds of aulos, single or double.The most common variety was a reed instrument. [6] Archeological finds, surviving iconography and other evidence indicate that it was double-reeded, like the modern oboe, but with a larger mouthpiece, like the surviving Armenian duduk. [7]
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
In ancient Greece and Rome, the tympanon (τύμπανον) or tympanum, was a type of frame drum or tambourine. It was circular, shallow, and beaten with the palm of the hand or a stick. Some representations show decorations or zill-like objects around the rim. The instrument was played by worshippers in the rites of Dionysus, Cybele, and ...
Musical instruments used in early music, ... Ancient Greek musical instruments (27 P) Ancient Roman musical instruments (9 P) B. Baroque instruments (1 C, 43 P) H.
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 ...
The bullroarer, [1] rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. [2] It consists of a piece of wood attached to a string, which when swung in a large circle produces a roaring vibration sound.