traditional instrument
Folk culture's soundmaker
A traditional instrument is a musical instrument associated with a particular culture's folk or classical heritage, as opposed to modern or electronic instruments.
The term often distinguishes acoustic instruments with long histories—fiddles, sitars, drums, flutes—from synthesizers or electric guitars: She studied traditional instruments of West Africa.
What counts as traditional varies by context; a piano is traditional relative to a drum machine.
- folk musicCommunity-born acoustic songs
- world musicTraditional international musical styles
- cultural heritageInherited collective traditions
- fluteTube blown sideways
- violinBowed string instrument
tabla · piano · sitar · clavichord · panpipes · didgeridoo · djembe · koto · bow · oud · harmonium · bodhrán · hurdy-gurdy · gamelan · cajón · zither · marimba · twang
traditional instrumentsynthesizer
Electronic sound-generating instrument
electronic instrument · electronic keyboard · drum machine · sampler · theremin
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