Greek musical instruments have evolved over centuries as Greece was influenced by other civilizations. Early Greek musicians used pipes, lyres, drums and cymbals. Traditional Greek instruments include the guitar, harp, lyre, bouzouki, mandolin, clarinet and baglama. Each instrument has distinct characteristics such as the guitar being constructed of wood or the lyre being a smaller version of other string instruments.

1. Greek Musical
Instruments
Vana Nikolaidou-Fani Xerrakia-Stergios Tsarouchas

2. Introduction
Greek music is a genre of music that is
full of diversity, because Greece is one of
the world's oldest civilizations. Therefore,
there have been many different kinds of
music. Greece is a country that has been
heavily influenced by other civilizations,
like European and the Asian cultures.

3. History
Greek musicians used pipes, lyres,
drums, and cymbals were all types of
instruments used in the earliest days of
Greek music. The music was often
played when people worshiped
Dionysos, who was the god of wine
and festivals.

4. Greek traditional instruments
 Guitar  Harp
 Lyre  Baglama
 Bouzouki  Mandolin
 Klarino

5. Guitar
 A string instrument
(chordophone family)
 Is constructed from wood
 There are three types of
guitar
1. Accoustic
2. Classical
3. Steel - String

6. Lyre
 A stringed musical
instrument
 This is a smaller version
of the
professional guitar and
the eastern-
Aegean barbiton.
 Lyre can refer generally
to all three instruments
as a family.

7. Clarinet
 A type
of woodwind
instrument
 A straight
cylindrical tube
with an
approximately
cylindrical bore,
and a flaring bell.

8. Mandolin
 Its shape is generally
round or teardrop-
shaped.
 A mandolin may have
f-holes, or a single
round or oval sound
hole.

9. Harp
 The harp is a
multi-stringed
instrument.
 It is in the general
category of
chordophones and
has its own sub
category.

10. Bouzouki
 It was brought
to Greece in the 1900s by
immigrants from Asia
Minor.
 The instrument is played
with a plectrum and has a
sharp metallic sound,
reminiscent of
a mandolin.

11. Baglama
 A long necked bowl-
lute which is a plucked
string instrument used
in Greek music.
 Musically, the baglamas
is most often found
supporting the
bouzouki in
the Piraeus city style
of rebetiko.