Lithuanian folk instruments
Lithuanian wind instruments
Wind instruments in Lithuanian tradition range from simple shepherd pipes to powerful horns and multi-part ensembles such as skuduciai.
Wind sound in Lithuanian folk culture
Wind instruments range from simple shepherd pipes to powerful horns and multipart skuduciai. Read them through sound, work, signal, outdoor space, and local musical practice.
Wind-instrument guides
Read about Lithuanian pipes, horns, trumpets, signal instruments, and their musical settings.
Birbynė is a Lithuanian reed wind instrument whose history runs from shepherds' straw or feather pipes to the refined stage birbynė with an animal-horn bell.
Daudytės are long Lithuanian wooden lip trumpets, 140-250 cm birch-bark-wrapped tubes, used by men in pairs in northeastern Lithuania to play sutartinės and…
Dūdmaišis, or Labanoro dūda, is a Lithuanian reed bag aerophone with a leather bag, melodic pipe, and drone pipes; it spread in Lithuania from the sixteenth…
Kerdžiaus trimitas is a Lithuanian mouthpiece aerophone: a wooden signal trumpet wrapped in birch bark or bark, used by herdsmen to manage the herd and by…
Lamzdelis, also called lumzdelis, is a Lithuanian end-blown whistle flute with 3-8 finger holes, known especially through makers and players from the Kupiškis…
Molinukas is a Lithuanian clay whistle: a whistle vessel flute close to the ocarina, often shaped like a bird or small animal and associated with children and…
Ožragis is a Lithuanian wind instrument made from a goat horn: a lip or reed aerophone used throughout Lithuania for herdsmen's signals and song or dance…
Ragai are Lithuanian lip-blown wind instruments made from animal horn, metal, or wood.
Skudučiai are one of the most important Lithuanian wind instruments: a set of 5-8 separate pipes used by a group of players to create the polyphonic sound…
Švilpa is a long Lithuanian whistling instrument: a natural flute without finger holes, regarded as a prototype of the modern transverse flute and associated…