Folk and World Music Instruments
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Gadulka - Bulgarian fiddle played uprightit has three or four strings.
Gadzo - tall cylindrical peg-tuned drum from Ghana. The head is made of antelope skin. The drum is played with the hands or with one hand and a stick.
1. Greek bagpipe.
2. Bulgarian version of mountain/shepherd pipes. It has single drone, and an eight hole chanter.
Gaita y Percusión Asturiana. Dedicated to the study of the Asturian bagpipe and percussion.
2. A double-reed instrument that is widespread throughout the Basque Country, and in the neighboring region of Navarre (Spain).
3. Colombian vertical long flute made out of wood. It is used in cumbia music.
4. The name given to the dulzaina in Aragon (Spain).
5. A three hole flute found in various parts of Spain.
Gaita charra - three-holed Spanish flute.
Gaita de boto - Aragonese bagpipe. Also known as gaita aragonesa and gaita de fuelle.Gaita de Fole. Instrument maker's page about the gaita de fole. In Spanish. Includes contact information for those interested in purchasing instruments.
Gaita de Foles. Site from Portugal about the Portuguese version of the gaita de foles.
Gajda - Macedonian goat-skin bagpipe.
Gadje - Croatian bagpipe.
Gajdy – Slovakian bagpipe.
Gamelan – Percussion orchestra of Indonesia.
1. a cylindrical double headed drum (Ghana)
2. a Nigerian drum, played under the arm. Gangkogui - double iron bell from Ghana.
Ganza - a large tube shaker (Brazil) filled with small pellets. Most are made out of metal and some are multiple tubes attached together.
Gaohu - a Chinese bowed lute. It is a smaller version of the erhu, developed for Cantonese music in the 1920s.
Garamut - massive slit logs from Papua New Guinea.
Garantung - xylophone from Sumatra
Gasbah – a reed instrument from Algeria and Morocco.
Gaval - an Azerbaijani tambourine with the jingles fastened inside the frame. The head is made from fish skin.
Gayda - Yugoslav bagpipe.
G'bendi - earth bow from the Baka forest people of southeast Cameroon. It's a single stringed instrument that uses the earth itself as a sound box. A hole is dug and a thin piece of wood placed over it and pegged down firmly. A springy sapling is driven into the ground, bent over and attached to the center of the wooden board with a strong cord.
Geedal - a Pygmy harp with five to seven strings.
Gehu - a Chinese bowed string instrumentit has four strings. The Gehu comes in two versions, depending on the size, the da-gehu (large) and the diyin-gehu (bass).
Gendang - general term for drum in Malaysia.
Gendang indungna - lead drum in Karo (Sumatran) ceremonial ensembles.
Gendang anakna - ostinato drum in Karo (Sumatran) ceremonial ensembles.
Gender - Xylophone used in the Gamelan orchestras of Bali.
Ghatam - South Indian clay pot drum.
Ghab - Egyptian flute.
Ghaval - an Azerbaijani frame drum with jingles .
Ghichak - Afghan bowed string instrument.
Ghironda - Italian hurdy gurdy.
Gijak - Chinese fiddle made from walnut wood.
Gilo stones – an instrument created by striking certain stones with bamboo sticks of varying lengths, producing sounds like running water (Solomon Islands, Pacific).
Giong - Giong are Vietnamese stamping tubes that are usually played in pairs. They are made of large bamboo pipes open on one end, which are struck on the ground or on a stone to produce a low percussive sound. The pitch is determined by the length and size of the pipe. They are native to the highland regions of Vietnam where, it is said, they were derived from sticks used for digging. Stamping tubes are found throughout South East Asia, Oceania, and in parts of Africa (Courtesy of Khac Chi).
Giri - Ghanaian xylophone.
Gitarr - Swedish guitar.
Goblet drum – a single headed drum in the shape of a goblet. It has a narrow waisted body and can be made out of wood, metal or pottery. It is also known as hourglass-shaped drum.
Gogo - Gnawan lute, better known as sintir. It is derived from the West African word for fiddle.
Goje – 1. Nigerian spike fiddle. 2. one string fiddle from northern Ghana. A snakeskin covers a gourd bowl, horsehair is suspended on the bridge. It is played with a bow string.
Golpe - Tap on the guitar soundboard in Flamenco music.
Golpeador - flamenco guitar tap plate.
Gome - rectangular frame drum played by the hands and feet (Ghana). While the drummer is sitting on the gome and playing the drum with his hands, he is changing the pitch by varying the position of his heels
Gong - a circular metal plate of various dimensions used as a percussion instrument. It is struck with a padded hammer.
Gongguluur - Tuvan term for 'gonging' or clashing hand bells together for percussive effect.
Gongo - bells (Ghana).
Gongon - Ghanaian cowbell.
Gonje - bowed lute (Ghana).
Gonkogu - bells (Ghana).
Gordon - Romanian term for acoustic bass.
Gorodo - accordion (Madagascar).
Gorong talmbat - small tenor accompanying drum in a sabar drum set, Wolof (Senegal).
Gorong yeguel - small tight drum used in a sabar drum set, Wolof (Senegal).
Gourd - the dried hollowed-out shell of the fruit of a vine from the cucurbita family, which includes the squash, melon, pumpkin, cucumber.
Gousli - See gusli.
Gralla - traditional reed instrument made from wood, about 70 cm long. The cone shaped gralla is usually found in the Catalan region of Spain. In many other parts of Spain it is known as dulzaina.
Griezyne - Lithuanian fiddle.
Gu - the common Chinese name for drum.
Guacharaca - Colombian cane scraper of indigenous origin. The instrument was originally rubbed with an animal bone.
Guaché - Colombian wooden shaker.
Gua-gua - a musical instrument from Cuba. It is a hollow bamboo stick with a slit, mounted on a stand. It is struck with a stick called palito.
Guan - a wind instrument. It's a wood or bamboo cylinder fitted with a reed mouthpiece (China).
Guanzi - a short pipe of bamboo or hardwood with a large double reed mounted on the blowing end (China).
Guarará - Brazilian metal tube shaker.
Guases - Colombian tubular maraca.
Guayo - a serrated gourd from the Dominican Republic, which is scraped with a stick. It can also be made out of metal, which is scraped with a metal fork.
Guda - name given to the double chanter polyphonic bagpipe by the Laz people of Turkey.
Gudok - Russian fiddle.
Gudu - small support drum, mostly played with sticks (Ghana).
Güira - Dominican percussion instrument made with perforated tin that is rubbed rhythmically with a fork.
Güiro - scraper of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico). It it is a long, fretted gourd rubbed with a stick.
Gudugudu – a small wood kettle drum played with two long thin rawhide sticks (Nigeria).
Güícharo – a Puerto Rican scraper. It’s another term for the güiro. This Puerto Rican variety is distinguished by thinner grooves than those of a Cuban güiro.
Guimbarda - Spanish jew's harp. also known as trompa, arpa de boca, birimbao.
Guimbri – a Gnawa three-stringed bass instrument. It is plucked and of West African origin. Also known as sentir and sintir.
Guitar tabs, including some by world music artists.
Guitarra de Golpe - a Mexican variation of the Spanish guitar. It is about 3/4 the size of a standard guitar and is used as a rhythmic instrument in mariachi music. The tuning can vary from region to region.
Guitarra de son - See requinto jarocho.
Guitarra mariachera - see guitarra de golpe.
Guitarrico - very small Spanish guitar related to the timple (Canary Islands) and cavaquinho (Portugal).
Guitarrillo - a small guitar with 12 metal strings used in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries. Also known as timple and guitarrico.
Guitarro - a small Spanish five string guitar. Guitarro manchego, aragonés and levantino are different regional variations of the same instrument.
Guitarrón - large bass guitar of Chile and Mexico. The guitarrón is a very large guitar-like instrument with a short neck, six strings, no frets on the fingerboard and a belly in the back.
Gulu - cylindrical drums (Ghana).
Gulusago - laced drum (Ghana).
Guluzoro - laced drum (Ghana).
Gungon - a large Ghanaian bass drumit has a single snare made from a leather string along the upper part of the face of the drum. Gungonga - hourglass drum (Ghana).
Gunguru - " bells, usually tied to the dancer's feet (India).
Guoqin – See Guqin (China)
Gunguru - Indian globular bells, usually tied to the dancer's leg.
Gurkel – a Malian one-string instrument. Gusle - Serbian and Montenegrin one-stringed fiddle.
Guslar - Serbian and Montenegrin wandering minstrels.
Gusle - a one-stringed, bowed instrument, whose single string is made of thirty horsehairs. The string is only touched, not depressed, so that harmonics only are sounded. It is held between the legs with the long neck supported on one thigh.
Gusli - traditional Russian zither with 16 metal strings.
Gwata gourds - a Ugandan instrument used in popular dances. It is slapped with a handheld fan of metal spokes.
Gyaling - Tibetan oboes played as a pair by Tibetan monks in Buddhist rites. The players use cyclic breathing to provide a continuous sound.
Gyil - a long xylophone, about 1.5 meters long (5 feet), with seventeen keys, each with a corresponding gourd resonator (Ghana). Also known as Dagaa gyil.
Gyterne – a short-necked lute.
Gyu ke - a chordal singing style of the Tibetan monks.
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