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The accordion
is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed
aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion
is called an accordionist.
It is played by compressing or expanding a bellows whilst pressing buttons or keys,
causing valves, called pallets, to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel,
called reeds that vibrate to produce sound inside the
The instrument is sometimes considered a one-man-band as it needs no accompanying
instrument. The performer normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the righthand manual, and the accompaniment, consisting of bass and pre-set chord buttons, on
the left-hand manual.
The accordion is often used in folk music in Europe. Some popular music acts also make
use of the instrument. Additionally, the accordion is sometimes used in both solo and
orchestra performances of classical music.
The oldest name for this group of instruments is actually harmonika, from the Greek
harmonikos, meaning harmonic and musical. Today, native versions of the name
accordion are more common.
The cimbalom is a concert hammered dulcimer: a type of chordophone composed of a
large, trapezoidal box with metal strings stretched across its top. It is a musical
instrument commonly found throughout the group of East European nations and
cultures which composed Austria-Hungary (1867–1918), namely contemporary Greece,
Belarus, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia. The cimbalom is (typically) played by striking two beaters against the strings.
The steel treble strings are arranged in groups of 4 and are tuned in unison. The bass
strings which are over-spun with copper, are arranged in groups of 3 and are also tuned in
unison. The Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification system registers the
cimbalom with the number 314.122-4,5.[1] Moreover, the instrument name “cimbalom”
also denotes earlier, smaller versions of the cimbalom, and folk cimbaloms, of different
tone groupings, string arrangements, and box types. In English, the cimbalom spelling is
the most common,[2] followed by the variants, derived from Austria-Hungary’s
languages, cimbál, cymbalom, cymbalum, ţambal, tsymbaly and tsimbl etc. Santur,
Santouri, sandouri and a number of other non Austro-Hungarian names are sometimes
applied to this instrument in regions beyond Austria-Hungary which have their own
names for related instruments of the hammer dulcimer family.
The surname Zimbalist means "one who plays the cimbalom".
A "cymbalum" is not the same instrument as a cimbalom. A "cymbalum" is a part of a
medieval instrument, one of a set of 4-8 small bells, made in graded sizes and hung
together in a frame, aka "tintinabula" or "campanae"
Fujara
The fujara
(pronounced [fujara], foo-ya-ra) originated in central Slovakia as a large
sophisticated folk shepherd's fipple flute of unique design. It is technically a contrabass
instrument in the tabor pipe class.
Ranging from 150 to 170 cm long and tuned in A, G, and F. It has three tone holes
located on the lower part of the main body. The sound is produced by a fipple at the upper
end of the main body of the fujara. The air is led to the fipple through a smaller parallel
pipe, called vzduchovoď in Slovak (meaning "air channel"), mounted on the main body of
the instrument. While it is possible to play the fundamental frequency on fujaras,[1] the
normal playing technique is based on overblowing the instrument. Because of its aspect
ratio (great length versus small internal diameter), the overtones created permit one to
play a diatonic scale using only the three tone holes. The fujara is played standing, with
the instrument held vertically, usually braced against the right thigh.