9 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Traditional Musical Instruments"

Sundanese traditional flute sound, recorded in the studio of flute players nuun jogja, indonesia.

Kokiriko, or binzasara is traditional percussion instrument mostly popular in japan. It has two handles and is played in japanese dances and folk music. Sound is very similar to washboard.

Enregistrement de l'exposition coloniale

Enregistrement de l'exposition coloniale

The erhu (chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [ɑɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a southern fiddle, and sometimes known in the western world as the chinese violin or a chinese two-stringed fiddle. It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras. It is the most popular of the huqin family of traditional bowed string instruments used by various ethnic groups of china. A very versatile instrument, the erhu is used in both traditional and contemporary music arrangements, such as in pop, rock, jazz, etc. And makes a calm sound.

The toubeleki, is a kind of a greek traditional drum musical instrument. It is made from metal, open at its downside and covered with a skin stretched over it. It is played with the hands and used often in the greek traditional folk rhythms.

Karinding is a traditional musical instrument from sundanese west java, indonesia, the material of the instrument is made of bamboo and how to use it is blown and vibrated in the mouth.

Traditional musical instrument from west sumatra, a small kettle gong played by hitting the boss in its centre.

library of congress recording, and before 1911 -- public domain traditional Omaha Indian song. From here Notes This song was collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche. It is included on Omaha Indian Music: Historical Recordings from the Fletcher/La Flesche Collection (AFC L71). From the liner notes of the Omaha Indian Music album: Composers of love songs used melody and vocables to convey emotion (1893, pp. 53-54, 146-150; 1911, pp. 319-321). The true love-song, called by the Omaha Bethae waan, an old designation and not a descriptive name, is sung generally in the early morning, when the lover is keeping his tryst and watching for the maiden to emerge from the tent and go to the spring. They belong to the secret courtship and are sometimes called Me-the-g'thun wa-an - courting songs. . . . They were sung without drum, bell or rattle, to accent the rhythm, in which these songs is subordinated to tonality and is felt only in the musical phrases. . . . Vibrations for the purpose of giving greater expression were not only affected by the tremolo of the voice, but they were enhanced by waving the hand, or a spray of artemesia before the lips, while the body often swayed gently to the rhythm of the song (Fletcher, 1894, p. 156). George Miller's probable year of birth is 1852.