Museum of Popular Music Instruments
Encyclopedia
The Museum of Popular Music Instruments is a museum
and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in the Lassanis Mansion, Plaka
, Athens
, Greece
. It displays about 600 Greek musical instruments from the last 300 years and has as many more in store.
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in the Lassanis Mansion, Plaka
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 ancient town of Athens...
, Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. It displays about 600 Greek musical instruments from the last 300 years and has as many more in store.
Collection
The collection includes:- LyreLyreThe lyre is a stringed musical instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later. The word comes from the Greek "λύρα" and the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists", written in Linear B syllabic script...
s - FlogheraFlogheraThe 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....
s - DefiaTambourineThe tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
- GaidesBagpipesBagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
- KoudouniaKoudouniaThe Koudounia , are percussion musical instruments, like bells. They are made from copper. When someone play with them, they could give a ringing sound. Originally the koudounia, used by people like an amulet which were protected the animals from the evil spirits. The koudounia later, became an...
- LaghoutaLaoutoThe laouto is a long-neck fretted instrument of the lute family, found in Greece, and similar in appearance to the oud. It is played in most respects like the oud .- Construction :...
- BouzoukiBouzoukiThe bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
a - SouravliSouravliThe souravli is a type of duct-flute made of peg or wood. It has a 2 octave ambitus and its opening is slanted to the edge.A double flute is called a disavli , one with no holes and the other one having holes to play the melody....
a - ZournadesZurnaThe zurna , is a multinational outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul in Anatolian folk music. The name is from Turkish zurna, itself derived from Persian سرنای surnāy, composed of sūr “banquet, feast” and nāy “reed, pipe”...
- LalitsaLalitsaThe lalitsa , is a Greek wind musical instrument in a spherical shape. It is very widespread in Greece in the traditional Greek folk music. It is blown sideways like the Greek musical instrument floghera. Lalitses have no holes for the figger-use and they looks like whistles.-References:**...
s - ToubelekiToubelekiThe toubeleki , is a kind of a Greek traditional drum musical instrument. It is made from metal, open at it's down side and covered with a skin stretched over it. It is played with the hands and used often in the Greek traditional folk rhythms, for the particularly cover of the Greek laiko and...
a - Cretan lyras