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Kora
A West African harp of the Jali (bard or storyteller) with a resonator made from half a gourd and a long hardwood neck.
Bodhrán
An Irish frame drum ranging in size, played with a wooden stick called a tipper.
Kantele
A Finnish plucked string instrument belonging to the zither family with a distinctive diatonic sound.
Zither
A musical string instrument, native to Europe and Asia, which consists of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body.
Hardanger Fiddle
A traditional Norwegian fiddle with an ornate design and understrings that resonate with the top strings, giving it a haunting tone.
Bagpipes
A wind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag, iconic in Scottish and Irish culture.
Sitar
A plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music, with a long neck and a gourd body.
Didgeridoo
A wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians, typically made from hollowed-out eucalyptus branches.
Bandoneón
A type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay, essential to the traditional tango music ensemble.
Balalaika
A triangular-bodied Russian stringed instrument with a distinctive timbre.
Uilleann Pipes
A complex bagpipe system from Ireland, recognized for its sweet tone and wide range of notes.
Pan Flute
A musical instrument made from a series of tubes of varying lengths and sizes, typically played in folk music from the Andean regions of South America.
Charango
A small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, traditionally made from the shell of an armadillo.
Nyckelharpa
A Swedish stringed instrument with keys that serves as violin's kinfolk, a staple in traditional Swedish music.
Dulcimer
A stringed musical instrument with strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board, prevalent in American and European folk music.
Accordion
A box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, which is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys.
Erhu
A two-stringed bowed musical instrument from China, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or a Chinese fiddle.
Oud
A pear-shaped, lute-like instrument commonly found in Middle Eastern music with a rich, resonant sound.
Bouzouki
A Greek stringed instrument with a long neck and a round, pear-shaped body, with a sound integral to Greek folk music.
Gaita
A type of bagpipe native to the Iberian Peninsula, particularly popular in Galicia and Asturias.
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