Folk Instruments

A collection of musical folk instruments, like strings, winds and percussion.

Mountain Dulcimer

The mountain dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic.

Hammered Dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument with the strings stretched over a trapezoidal sounding board.

Bandura

Bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza.

Mouth Harps

The Jew's harp, jaw harp, mouth harp, trump and juice harp are thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world.

Morsing

A morsing is a percussion instrument, mainly used in the Carnatic music of South India and Sindh (Pakistan).

Dan Moi

A dan moi is a type of mouth harp originating from Vietnam.

Semantron

The semantron or semanterion, also called a xylon, toacă, bilo or klepalo is a percussion instrument used in temples to summon monks to prayer or at the start of a procession.

Kou Xiang or Five Leaves

Kouxian (口弦; pinyin: kǒuxián) is the Chinese generic term for the Jew's harp, and as such is used to refer to all such instruments originating in China. In the Chinese language, however, the term is used to refer to all Jew's harps, whether from China or elsewhere.