The Instruments of Ancient Greece
In the modern world, instruments are categorized into four main groups: string, percussion, woodwind, and brass. Likewise, in Ancient Greece they had string, brass, reed, and percussion instruments. Many of these instruments are predecessors to modern instruments; while for some no change has been made at all except the materials it is made from and/ or the name!
This man does a good job further explaining and demonstrating select instruments played by the Ancient Greeks.
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LyrAvlos is a Greek organization that strives to reconstruct and preserve what Ancient Greek music sounds like. |
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These people have an interesting website and YouTube channel on which they share recordings of Traditional Cretan Music.
Crete is the largest island off the mainland of Greece. It has it's own Greek dialect known as Cretan. |
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