French musical instruments

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.

thumb|Video of a hurdy-gurdy being played

thumb|alt=A man plays the Victorian Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas" on a carillon's wooden keyboard with his fists, during this carillon's annual Christmas recitals during the 2016 holiday season.|A carillonist plays the 56-bell carillon of the Plummer Building, [[Rochester, Minnesota, US]] thumb|alt=A steel structure containing 56 hanging bells of various sizes and topped with a roof spire and a cross|The 56-bell carillon of Saint Joseph's Oratory, [[Montreal, Quebec, Canada]]

mechanical musical instrument

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conical-bore double-reed instrument

large, steam-powered musical instrument

string instrument played with hammers

musical instrument of the bagpipe family

thumb|Serinette made by Bennard from Mirecourt, France, in 1757. thumb|A serinette made after 1877 by Thibouville-Lamy in Mirecourt, France. Among the pieces this instrument plays is "Cloches de Corneville." A serinette is a type of musical instrument, similar to a Perroquette, consisting of a small hand-cranked, pneumatic barrel organ. It appeared in the first half of the 18th century in eastern France, and was used to teach tunes to canaries. Its name is derived from the French serin, meaning "canary."

musical instrument

thumb|One of the pyrophones constructed by Kastner, as seen in 2013 in the Musée historique de Strasbourg upright|thumb|Durant's diagram of the sound-creating gas burners, the, "mechanisms that allowed two flames to unite or diverge to produce a musical note" thumb|Kastner

fretted string instrument of the zither family

thumb|right|300px|Boha made in 2003

250px|right|thumb|Cabrette player Jean Rascalou

a French pipe organ designed for use in a commercial public fairground setting

musical instrument

thumb|A graïle The graïle, (or Occitan graile) is a woodwind instrument of Languedoc, France, resembling a primitive oboe. It is played in Monts de Lacaune (in the department of Tarn) and surrounding areas including Bezime.

Instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard

French bagpipe

musical instrument