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Askomandoura () is a type of
The folk musical instruments in Crete
Athens 2004. With respect to the way of the production sound, it is categorized as an
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Askomandoura () is a type of bagpipe
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...
played as a traditional instrument on the Greek
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island of Crete
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, similar to the ''tsampouna
The tsampouna (or tsambouna; ) is a Greek musical instrument and part of the bagpipe family. It is a double- chantered bagpipe, with no drone, and is inflated by blowing by mouth into a goatskin bag. The instrument is widespread in the Greek isla ...
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Its use in Crete is attested in illustrations from the mid-15th Century.Ioannis TsouchlarakiThe folk musical instruments in Crete
Athens 2004. With respect to the way of the production sound, it is categorized as an
aerophone
An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrume ...
musical instrument.
See also
* Mandoura * Greek musical instruments * Cretan music *Cretan lyra
The Cretan lyra () is a pear-shaped three-stringed Greece, Greek Violin, a traditional Greek musical instruments, musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Islands, Aegean Ar ...
* Greek music
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