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Musical instrument
Indian village musicians. Indians always distinguished between classical and folk music, though in the past even classical Indian music used to rely on the unwritten transmission of repertoire.
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Violeiro
playing, by Almeida Junior.
The
viola caipira
is a Brazilian folk instrument.
A
folk instrument
is a traditional
musical instrument
that has remained largely restricted to
traditional folk music
, and is not usually used in the
classical music
or other elite and formal musical genres of the culture concerned, though related intruments may be.
It can be made from
wood
,
metal
or other material; all the
major families of instruments
are represented. The instruments can be percussion instruments, or different types of
flutes
or
trumpets
, or string instruments that are plucked, hammered or use a form of
bow
.
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Some instruments are referred to as folk instruments because they commonly appear in folk music, even though they are also used in other types of music; an example is the
harmonica
. The classical
violin
and the folk
fiddle
may be identical.
List of folk instruments
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References
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