Jouhikko-The Finnish Bowed Lyre

A traditional Finnish jouhikko captured with natural dynamics, drone control and expressive bowing. Includes SFZ and DecentSampler versions.

The story

I own this instrument for while. Finally I learned to play it little bit. It’s tuned for tradiotinal G D A, where D is the ‘borduna’ string. Playable notes are about one octave, G2-G3. Finally I sampled it and then spend quite time to learn sfz and decent sampler programming. They both should sound the same. There is version for Sfortando without background image.

Interface

Reviews

  • Lovely

    Simple, but lovely. Not much in way of the GUI, but that's not a minus. It's a beautiful instrument that shines clear.

    TC on 11 January 2026
  • Awesome

    I LOVE this!!! Thank you so much, it is most perfect

    Fuimadane on 13 January 2026
  • Beautiful!

    A lovely sounding instrument. Thank you.

    Brian on 27 April 2026