Greek musical instruments

Music of Greece
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Church music (Byzantine) Classical music Ionian School Greek folk Laïko Rock Hip Hop Punk Greek New Wave (Neo kyma)
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Contemporary Entehno Nisiotika Rebetiko Skiladiko
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Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem	"Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas	Cyprus, Pontus, Constantinople, South Italy
Regional styles	Aegean Islands Central Greece Crete Epirus (polyphonic song) Ionian Islands Macedonia Peloponnese Thessaly Thrace

Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term of Lyre, all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the strings were attached.The strings varied in number from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era. Greek musical instruments can be classified into the following categories:

Ancient

• Aulos

• Barbiton

• Chelys

• Cithara (or Kithara)

• Crotalum

• Epigonion

• Harp

• Lyre

• Organon

• Pan flute (Syrinx)

• Pandura

• Phorminx

• Rhoptron

• Salpinx

• Psaltery

• Tambourine

• Trigonon

• Water organ

Modern

String Instruments

• Byzantine lyra (Politiki lyra or Constantinople lyra)

• Baglamas

• Bouzouki

• Contrabass

• Cretan lyra

• Karantouzeni

• Mandola

• Mandolin

• Psaltery

• Santouri

• Laouto (Big and small)

• Lavta

• Pontian lyra

• Tambouras

• Thaboura

• Tzouras

Aerophones

• Askomandoura

• Aulos

• Floghera

• Karamuza

• Lalitsa

• Mantura

• Souravli

• Tsampouna

Percussion instruments

• Cochilia

• Crotala

• Koudounia

• Tambourine (Defi)

• Toubeleki

• Trigono

• Tympano

• Zilia

See also

• Music of Greece
• Greek dances
• Greek folk music
• Greek Oud Page