traditional instruments
Heritage music makers
Traditional instruments are musical instruments associated with folk, classical, or indigenous music rather than modern electronic or amplified forms.
The phrase typically contrasts with synthesizers, electric guitars, and digital production: The album features traditional instruments like fiddle and banjo.
What counts as traditional varies by culture—a sitar is traditional in India, a koto in Japan, an accordion in certain European folk traditions.
- koraAfrican bridge-harp with twenty-one strings
- sitarIndian plucked lute
- string instrumentsMusic makers with tensioned filaments
- bagpipesDroning wind instrument
- folk musicCommunity-born acoustic songs
folk songs · oud · gamelan · world music · balalaika · steel pan · djembe · hand drums · didgeridoo · hurdy-gurdy · erhu · cultural heritage · bamboo flute · plucked · harp · fiddle · folklore · village festivals
- cultural heritagefolklore, traditions, customs, folk music revival, museum collections
- folk musicfolk, folk music, folk songs, folk ballads, folk ballad
- African MusicAfrobeat, highlife, afrobeat, Afro-pop, African rhythms
- Bulgarian musictambura, wedding music, ritual music
- Persian popAndy, tar, satellite channels
- Polish ArtsChopin, polonaise, mazurka, Roman Polanski
traditional instrumentssynthesizers
Electronic sound-generating instruments
electronic instruments · drum machines · samplers · virtual instruments · turntables