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This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it is used with widely varying definitions depending on the author, intended audience and context within a work.
Illustrations of St. Jerome's instruments. Top, the bumbulum; below it the tubae blown through by the Trinity; the two instruments below the tubae are psalteriums; below them are a timpanum and chorus (trumpet that splits into two and rejoins at the exit). 1511 A.D. Germany. Reproduction of line of images in manuscript that go back into the ...
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This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Bowed dulcimer (German) Bowed guitar (London) Bowed psaltery (United States) Byzaanchy (Tuva) Byzantine lyra (Greece) Calabrian Lira (Italy) Cello (Italian) Chagane (Azerbaijan) Chikara (India) Chiwang (Bhutan) Chrotta (Wales) Chuniri (Georgia) Cimboa (Cape Verde) Cizhonghu (China) Cornstalk fiddle (United States) Cretan lyra (Greece) Crwth ...
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The zither became a popular folk music instrument in Bavaria and Austria and, at the beginning of the 19th century, was known as a Volkszither. Viennese zitherist Johann Petzmayer (1803–1884) became one of the outstanding virtuosi on these early instruments and is credited with making the zither a household instrument. [11]