Norwegian musical instruments

traditional Norwegian stringed instrument

thumb|180px|right|A Bronze Age lur found in Brudevælte Mose, northeast of Lynge in Zealand (Denmark)|Zealand, [[Denmark]] thumb|180px|right|class=notpageimage |A modern lur from Norway, made of wood wrapped in birch bark A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to avoid directing the loud noise at nearby people.

The langeleik, also called langleik, is a Norwegian stringed folklore musical instrument, a droned zither.

thumb|Psalmodicon from a farm on the island Skorpa, Nordland|Skorpa in [[Helgeland, Norway, with bow and music book in siffernotskrift]] thumb|Psalmodikon from Gagnef, Dalarna, Sweden, made in 1869, originally with three strings thumb|Psalmodikon, played at the School Museum in Djurmo, Dalarna, Sweden The psalmodicon (psalmodikon or salmodikon) is a stringed musical instrument a type of Monochord; the most common variants have a single string. It was developed in Scandinavia for simplifying music in churches and schools, and as an alternative to the fiddle for sacred music. The instrument coul

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type of natural trumpet made of spruce covered with birch bark

A bukkehorn (Norwegian) or bockhorn (Swedish), also called ″Billy Goat Horn″ in English, is an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument, made from the horn of a sheep or a goat. The horn is usually made from a goat horn harvested 5 to 7 years before the instrument is crafted. It was traditionally used by shepherds and milkmaids on summer dairy farms in the mountains, as a signal-instrument or as a scaring instrument. It is most commonly played by buzzing one's lips against the mouthpiece, but versions with a single reed similar to that of a clarinet also exist.

plucked string instrument widely used in north-western Europe from pre-Christian to medieval times

type of bowed lyre