The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments (), is a
museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...
and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in the Lassanis Mansion,
Plaka
Pláka () is the old historical neighborhood of Athens, clustered around the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis, and incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture. Plaka is built on top of the residential areas of the ...
,
Athens
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,
Greece
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. It displays about 600 Greek musical instruments from the last 300 years and has as many more in store.
Collection
The collection includes:
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Lyre
The lyre () (from Greek λύρα and Latin ''lyra)'' is a string instrument, stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the History of lute-family instruments, lute family of instruments. In organology, a ...
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Floghera
The floghera (, ) is a type of flute used in Greek folk music. It is a simple end-blown bamboo flute without a fipple, which is played by directing a narrow air stream against its sharp, open upper end. It typically has seven finger holes.
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Defia
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Gaides
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Koudounia The Koudounia (), are bell-like percussion instruments. Most often, they are made from copper and upon playing (that is, hitting them with a stick) they give out a special ringing sound. Originally the koudounia had been used as an amulet which prot ...
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Laghouta
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Bouzouki
The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...
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Souravlia
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Zournades
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Lalitsas
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Toubeleki
The toubeleki (), is a kind of a Greek traditional drum musical instrument. It is usually made from metal, open at its downside and covered with a skin stretched over it. It is played with the hands and used often in the Greek traditional folk rhy ...
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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 ...
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Gallery
File:Askomandoura pipes.jpg, Askomandoura
Askomandoura () is a type of bagpipe played as a traditional instrument on the Greek island of Crete, similar to the ''tsampouna''.
Its use in Crete is attested in illustrations from the mid-15th Century.Ioannis TsouchlarakiThe folk musical instr ...
File:"Floyera" (1-5. Cane flutes), Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments.jpg, Floghera
The floghera (, ) is a type of flute used in Greek folk music. It is a simple end-blown bamboo flute without a fipple, which is played by directing a narrow air stream against its sharp, open upper end. It typically has seven finger holes.
See al ...
(flute)
File:DEFI (tambourine), Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments.jpg, Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, thoug ...
File:Cretan lyres, Museum of Greek Folk Instruments, Athens 2008.jpg, 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 ...
s
File:Tsambouna.jpg, 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 ...
File:Bouzoukis.jpg, Bouzouki
The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...
File:Laghouto.jpg, Laouto
The laouto (, pl. laouta ) is a long-neck fretted instrument of the lute family, found in Greece and Cyprus, and similar in appearance to the oud. It has four double-strings. It is played in most respects like the oud (plucked with a long ple ...
File:Tamboytsa, Cyprus, Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments.jpg, Tamboutsa (Cyprus)
See also
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List of music museums
This list of music museums offers a guide to museums worldwide that specialize in the domain of music. These institutions are dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of music-related history, including the lives and works of prominent musicia ...
References
External links
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourismwww.greece-museums.com
Museums in Athens
Popular
Music organizations based in Greece
Music museums in Greece
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