Traditional / Folk Instrument selection

A selection of useful traditional / folk instrument sounds on pianobook

  • Published Sample Packs20
  • Published Collections1

Collected by
Eamon

Irish Bouzouki

An Irish Bouzouki (lute/guitar-like instrument) with plucks, harmonics and tremolos.

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Pendant Ocarina

A small, simple vessel flute

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Bulbul Tarang

An Indian keyed zither escapes the confines of its monophonic existence

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Politiki Flogera

A Greek aulos / flute with fipple end...

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Saw U

A Thai bowed-string instrument

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Bowl Lyre

A small bowl lyre-harp from Kenya

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Näverlur

A Swedish birch horn

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Bowzouki

An Irish Bouzouki bowed to imitate a Tagelharpa...

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Khlui

A Thai duct/fipple flute...

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Shakuhachi

A Japanese bamboo flute

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MG Sweet Uke

A beautiful high-end ukulele, sampled to capture its sweetness, warmth and consistent clear tone. Great for intimate fingerpicked playing styles.

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Hearth & Hollow – Plucked Folk Ensemble

Seven deeply sampled acoustic folk instruments assembled as a fully arrange-able ensemble.

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Homemade Udu

Four round robins of mono samples recorded in my iso booth. Various udu hits and techniques, some recorded externally and some with the mic facing down the sound hole.

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Tsouras (Bouzouki)

A hand made baby bouzouki from Greece!

  • Decent Sampler
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Spinetta Italiana

Elgorni's portable keyboard randomly found on the internet and partially restored. Tuned with meantone temperament, A=415 Hz.

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The Lockdown Mandolin

A Havana 8 String Mandolin sampled with MXL 603s and MXL 991 microphones.

  • Decent Sampler
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Saraswati Veena

An Indian plucked instrument, used in Carnatic Music, a South Indian Classical Music

  • EXS24

Guffland Ukulele

Sampled ukulele goodness!

  • Decent Sampler

Redwood Flute

A beautiful handmade Redwood Flute with a light airy tone.

  • Decent Sampler

Zither

Several sets of a picked, plucked and hit zither.. and some extra's

  • Decent Sampler
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Baglamas – Greek Mini Bouzouki

This mini bouzouki I brought home from a trip to Athens and it's also my very first sampled instrument. It has a quite aggressive plucked dry sound. Apply splosh and tune to taste!

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Cuatro Venezolano

This sample library is from the typical instrument of my country Venezuela besides that it use at almost all genres typical of venezuela, its sound is melancholy but sober. Perfect...

  • Decent Sampler

Hugh’s Bouzouki

An old bouzouki that a friend lent me to sample. I finally got around to it. Kontakt 5.8.1

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The Ektara

The Ektara is one of the oldest Indian stringed instruments. The physical instrument has a limited range so it is used as a drone instrument by the folk singers of India.

  • Decent Sampler

Cedar Box Instrument

Built entirely from scratch, an idiosyncratic stringed instrument, with a percussive, plucked sound...

  • Decent Sampler

Odd Flutes

Pitched, breathy, hippy bamboo flutes with switchable extras......

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Ornamental African Banjo

This pack endeavours to create a musical instrument out of a decorative ornamental piece that purports to be an instrument.

  • Decent Sampler

Bodhran

A Bodhran sample pack I created just for fun, it should sound like a “traditional” cheap tunable bodhran played with a two tip stick.

  • Decent Sampler
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Legato Tin Whistle

A legato tin whistle with Celtic musical ornaments.......

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The Wildmother’s Dulcimer

A hammered dulcimer evoking forests and glades with evocative aleatoric playing as well as deeply-sampled standard articulations...

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Hunter’s Percussion – World

Djembe, Conga, Bongo, Udu and Taiko Family

  • Decent Sampler
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Leftist Zither Marxophone

A restored Marxophone sampled dry and through a wide variety of pedals...

  • EXS24
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Kit lyre

A hand built Lyre played with paper clips, bowes and muted with paper

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Mountain Dulcimer

Mountain Dulcimer.

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HZ_Dizi_G

A legato Chinese bamboo flute in G ("Xindi")

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Wooden Flute

A wooden Native American flute.

  • Decent Sampler

Evertsberg

A Swedish fipple flute known as a 'spelpipa'.

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Uilleann Pipes

A uilleann pipe "practice set" sampled to create the sound of a "full set".

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Hoveflute

A Peruvian pan pipe sampled with a Zoom H2n. Glockenspiel included as well.

  • Decent Sampler
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Pipa

A Chinese plucked string instrument, sometimes described as the 'Chinese lute'. Kontakt 5.8+.

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