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Z. Zongora. Categories: Musical instruments of Europe by country. Musical instruments by country. Music of Romania.
Folk music is the oldest form of Romanian musical creation, characterised by great vitality; it is the defining source of the cultured musical creation, both religious and lay. Conservation of Romanian folk music has been aided by a large and enduring audience, also by numerous performers who helped propagate and further develop the folk sound.
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist.
A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family. Woodwind family.
Dulcimer. Fiddle. Gittern [ 6] Guitarra latina. Guitarra morisca [ 7] Medieval harp (Medieval form of the modern harp) Hurdy-gurdy. Lute [ 8] Lyre.
Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the stringser from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era ". Greek musical instruments can be classified into ...
S.C. Hora S.A. ( trade name: Hora Instruments) is a Romanian manufacturer of string instruments. The company, based in Reghin, was founded in 1951 around the workshop of master luthier Roman Boianciuc as a state-owned enterprise . Over 80% of its products are exported to North America, Western and Northern Europe, Russia and Japan.