Traditional French musical instruments
Traditional French musical instruments, known as instruments traditionnels in French, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of France. They comprise a range of string, wind, and percussion instruments.
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Percussion instruments
String instruments
- Cetera — a cittern of 4 to 8 double strings that is of Tuscan origin and dates back to the Renaissance, is the most iconic Corsican traditional instrument. Its most prominent exponent is Roland Ferrandi (also a lutenist).
- Cythara — a lute
- Epinette des Vosges — a traditional plucked-string instrument of the zither family from the Vosges region in eastern France[1]
- Mandulina — a Corsican mandolin
- Mandore — a musical instrument, a small member of the lute family, teardrop shaped, with four to six courses of gut strings and pitched in the treble range.
- Tambourin à cordes — a box zither from southern France
- Ukulele — a small, guitar-like instrument from French Polynesia
Bowed
- Basse de Flandre — a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick from French Flanders in Hauts-de-Franc.
- Bobre — a bowed instrument from Réunion
- Vielle à roue — a mechanical string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.
Wind instruments
Flutes
French flutes are called flûte. There are many traditional flutes.
Reed Instruments
- Cialamedda (also cialamella/cialambella) — a Corsican reed instrument, more recently with a wooden box body
- Pirula — a Corsican reed recorder
- Vivo — a French Polynesian nose flute
Free reed mouth organs
- Binioù kozh — a Breton bagpipe
- Bodega — a Occitan bagpipe
- Boha — a bagpipe from Landes of Gascony in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Bombard — a contemporary conical-bore double-reed instrument from Brittany
- Bousine — a small, droneless bagpipe from Normandy[2]
- Cabrette — a bagpipe from Auvergne in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Caramusa — a Corsican bagpipe made of wood, leather and reed
- Chabrette — a bagpipe from Limousin in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Cornemuse du Centre — a bagpipe from Central France
- Loure — an ancient bagpipe from Normandy
Other instruments
- Orgue de barbarie (also orgue à manivelle) — a mechanical musical instrument from the Alsace region of Grand Est consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes housed in a case, usually of wood, and often highly decorated.[3]
- Orgue de danse — a mechanical organ from Paris, Île-de-France designed to be used in dance halls or ballrooms.
- Orgue de rue — a automatic mechanical pneumatic organ from Paris, Île-de-France designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street.
- Limonaire — a pneumatic musical organ from Paris, Île-de-France covering the wind and percussive sections of an orchestra.[4][5][6]
- Ralé-poussé — a Réunionnaise accordion
- Riberbula — a jaw harp used by the Corsican people
- Serinette — a mechanical musical instrument from the Lorraine region of Grand Est
- Urganettu — a Corsican diatonic accordion
See also
References
- Méthode d'épinette par Christophe Toussaint. Édition princeps 2004. 2ème édition 2007.
- Les architectes odinistes des cathédrales. Les chanoinesses et les évêques odinistes dans les diocèses saxons-normands, Fascicules de I à VII, de Maurice Erwin Guignard, à Bonneval & Chartres.
- Ord-Hume 1978, p. 52.
- https://coaa.us/index_archive/Issues_21_to_30/Limonaire%20Freres%20Paris_Andrea%20Stadler_%20_26-27-28.pdf
- "Les frères LIMONAIRE".
- "La petite musique des orgues Odin". 13 May 2015.
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