Traditional musical instruments

• Gusla


  A bowed, stringed musical instrument used mostly in southeastern Europe. It comprises of a skin belly, a round wooden back, and one horse hair string at the top of the neck. It is kept in a vertical position and played using a deep curved bow.
• Erhu


  A bowed, two-stringed Chinese vertical fiddle. The strings are stretched over a wooden drum-like resonator covered by a snakeskin membrane. In performance, the erhu is held upright on the performer's thigh while the bow is moved horizontally over the strings.
• Aeolian harp


  A type of wooden sound box on which sounds are produced by the movement of wind over its strings. The strings can be made of different materials or thicknesses. It was very popular in Germany and England during the late 18th and 19th centuries.
• Ektara


  A rhythmic folk instrument with a stretched single string, a spherical resonator covered with animal skin, and a split bamboo cane as a neck. The name literally means 'one-stringed'. This instrument is used mainly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
• Balalaika


  A stringed musical instrument of the lute family, developed in the 18th century in Russia and Central Asia. It is made in six sizes, from piccolo to double bass, and has a flat back and a triangular belly that tapers to the neck.
• Glass harmonica


  Consists of a set of graduated, tuned glass bowls, which are played by rubbing moistened fingers on the glass bowl's rims. It was invented by American printer, author, and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
• Guido d'Arezzo was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue who invented the musical staff and the hexachord system. All later musical notation may be traced back to this style of writing.
• Indian musicians


  • Pandit Ravi Shankar (sitar)
  • Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (santoor)
  • Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute)
  • Ustad Zakir Hussain (tabla)