Folk and World Music Instruments

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Yang Qin - Chinese hammered dulcimer played with two bamboo mallets. 

Yanggum - Korean hammered dulcimer, derived from European dulcimers.

Yaogu - Chinese temple or flower drum.

Yaraki - Aboriginal term for the didjeridu.

Yarghul - Palestinian drone and chanter double-pipe. 

Yataga - Mongolian zither. The strings are plucked and the sound is very smooth. Yataga is constructed as a box with a convex surface and an end bent towards the ground. It is more complex than most of its counterparts, and in the times of old it was regarded as an instrument of the court rather than a village folklore instrument, since the strings symbolized the levels of the palace hierarchy.

Yatga - See yataga.

Yidaki - didjeridu.

Yidaqui - didjeridu.

Yoik - archaic Sami mode of unaccompanied solo singing (Sweden and Norway).

Yotsutake - Japanese bamboo clappers.

Youyou - Arabian heavy drum played only by women.

Yueqin - moon-shaped lute, also known as sixian, moon lute, Chinese lute, moon guitar, or moon violin.

Yuka - long cylindrical drums of Congolese origin.

Yun-lo - Chinese cloud gong, ten small gongs of different pitches suspended in a wooden frame. 

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