Ηello!this is a typical example of greek "Rebetiko" song.The instrument we hear is called in greek "Harmonica" and is one of the ancestors of the accordion we know today.The bad thing is that we are not sure about how this instrument exactly looked like.There are some clues and some bad photos,but still we can not know if the instrument we can see ...

Hi,  One article on outreach that springs to mind when posting this blog notice is the one written about "frame drums". I wrote this article here some years back, discussing the role of frame drums (highlighting the contrast between it's use in Irish and some parts of Asia). So, the instrument has always been of interest, especially when I would c...