Ancient Greek musical instruments

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be played in either a seated or standing position. Most commonly, harps are made of wood and are triangular in shape. Some have multiple rows of strings and pedal attachments.

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head. Tambourines are often used with regular percussion sets. They can be mounted, for example on a stand as part of a drum kit (and played with drum sticks), or they can be held in the hand and played by tapping, hitting, or shaking the instrument.

The lyre () (from Greek λύρα and Latin lyra) is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments. In organology, a lyre is considered a yoke lute, since it is a lute in which the strings are attached to a yoke that lies in the same plane as the sound table, and consists of two arms and a crossbar.

simple woodwind musical instrument, formed by tying various lengths of pipe together, now typically made from bamboo

thumb|322x322px|Young kitharode|kithara player, in costume, by the Goluchow painter; Athens, The kithara (), Latinized as cithara, was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching music to beginners. As opposed to the simpler lyre, the cithara was primarily used by professional musicians, called kitharodes. In modern Greek, the word kithara has come to mean "guitar"; etymologically, the word guitar derives from kithara.

An aulos (plural auloi; : , plural : ) or was a wind instrument in ancient Greece, often depicted in art and also attested by archaeology.

musical keyboard instrument

thumb|upright=1.2|A sekhem-style sistrum

Middle-Eastern stringed instrument

See Rotte (psaltery) for medieval harp psaltery & Ancient Greek harps for earlier psalterion

pipe organ powered by water

thumb|200px|Greece 460-450 B.C. A woman holds a barbiton.

Phorminx is also a genus of cylindrical bark beetles.

thumb|5th century B.C., Attica, by the [[Phiale Painter. Red-figure phiale woman dancing with crotala (Boston MFA 97.371)]] thumb|right|Illustration taken from the drawing of an ancient marble in Jacob Spon|Spon's Miscellanea, representing one of the crotalistriae performing.

thumb|right|Musicians playing the salpinx (trumpet) and the hydraulis (water organ). Terracotta figurine made in Alexandria, 1st century BC thumb|Greek warrior blowing a salpinx A salpinx (; plural salpinges ; Greek σάλπιγξ) was a trumpet-like instrument of the ancient Greeks that was used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport.

The pandura (, pandoura) or pandore, an ancient Greek string instrument, belonged in the broad class of the lute and guitar instruments. Akkadians played similar instruments from the 3rd millennium BC. Ancient Greek artwork depicts such lutes from the 3rd or 4th century BC onward.

type of frame drum or tambourine

thumb|Epigonion Greek harp, circa 430 B.C. This style of harp is not named in artworks and has also been called trigonon by modern researchers. The epigonion () was an ancient stringed instrument, possibly a Greek harp mentioned in Athenaeus (183 AD), probably a psaltery.

thumb|Cylix of Apollo with the chelys lyre, on a 5th-century BC drinking cup ([[kylix)]]

1st-century BCE musical instrument unearthed in Greece