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The following instruments are part of their secular and religious dance and song: Taghanimt reed flute. Taghanimt, an end-blown reed flute. Used mostly to accompany songs rather than dance, the taghanimt has a rich, breathy texture. Mizwid, a type of bagpipe; the term literally means "bag" or "food pouch".
Folk wind instruments of the area include the Cantabrian pitu montañés, a kind of conical-bored shawm with seven holes in the front and one in the back, which is played in a similar manner to the bagpipe chanter. While it was traditionally made in E-flat, the instrument has been revitalized by Antón Corral, who makes them in D.
Set of cylindrical shawm-like instruments, with an air reservoir like a bagpipe: 422.121-62 Baganda peoples of Uganda: endongo [18] Bowl lyre made of lizardskin with strings tied to a piece of wood inserted into two holes on two arms 321.21: Balochs: suroz [19] Bowed string instrument with a long neck, similar to a fiddle or sarangi and played ...
The Galician gaita (Galician: Gaita galega, Portuguese: Gaita galega, Spanish: Gaita gallega) is the traditional instrument of Galicia and northern Portugal. [ 1 ] The word gaita is used across northern Spain as a generic term for " bagpipe ", although in the south of Spain and Portugal it denotes a variety of horn, flute or oboe like ...
Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭ 4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C). Most bagpipes are sharper than this, between D ♭ 4 and D 4. [1]. Northumbrian smallpipes in F or F+ B ♭ 4 for F (~20 cents sharp for F+)
Among Libyan Arabs, instruments include the zokra (a bagpipe), flute (made of bamboo), tambourine, oud (a fretless lute) and darbuka, a goblet drum held sideways and played with the fingers. Intricate clapping is also common in Libyan folk music. Traveling Bedouin poet-singers have spread many popular songs across Libya.
Mezwed, or mezoued, is both an instrument and genre of music. The instrument is like that of a bagpipe, although it is made with goat skin. The music mezwed is based around the instrument with singers and a darbouka beat. The more modernized version has more modern instruments with the Mezoued.
Rural folk traditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina include the shouted, polyphonic ganga and "ravne pjesme" (flat song) styles, as well as instruments like a droneless bagpipe, wooden flute and šargija. The gusle, an instrument found throughout the Balkans, is also used to accompany ancient Slavic epic poems.