The Hungarian people are a music-loving people, playing a wide range of different instruments in their music. Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Bálint Sárosi and Lajos Vargyas, among others, were widely involved in folk music, and numerous researches and collections have been preserved for posterity after their names. In his work The Folk Music of Hungarians, …
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The Flute, the Leaf, the Bucium, the Buhai, the Cimpoi, the Naiul, the Trumpet, the Ţambalul, the Ţitera or the Cobza are old instruments that have been preserved to this day. Music is an important part of the existence of the Romanian peasant. The sensitivity to the beauty of sound was also transmitted in the …
The daouli, taulin or taul’ in the Pontiac dialect, is a membranous musical instrument of Greek, Turkish and Middle Eastern folk music. In the form in which we find it today, it has been known since Byzantine times. It is a very widespread musical instrument, and its importance can be seen in secular and religious …
The Pontiac lyra or kementzes in the Turkish dialect of the Pontiac Greeks, is the pre-eminent folk instrument of the people of the Pontiac land throughout the coastal region of the Black Sea and on the mainland as far as the depths of Cappadocia, to the east of Paphlagonia, an area that today belongs under …
