Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.

Subject: RE: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: Helen
Date: 27 Oct 25 - 05:38 PM

So I guess the question is, Doug, which instruments have you crossed off the list so far and what else is on the list to check out?

Subject: RE: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 Oct 25 - 05:05 PM

The next one.

I don't know what it is yet - it's still in the shop or belongs to someone else, who's yet to pass it on to me - but I want it. I NEED IT!

DC

Subject: RE: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Oct 25 - 02:28 PM

My favorite folk music instrument is the kazoo, because it's the only instrument I can play halfway decently.

But hey, I can sing! ;-)

Subject: RE: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 27 Oct 25 - 07:43 AM

Irish Bouzouki, when I first heard Lunny and Irvine's playing on the Planxty "Black Album" I was instantly hooked. I was also taken with Liam O'Fylnn's Uillean Pipes on that LP but that seemed like a different universe for a string guy.

Subject: RE: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: Johnny J
Date: 27 Oct 25 - 06:44 AM

"Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument"

Basically, you can use any instrument you want and/or experiment as this young band are doing. There are and have, of course, been many examples over the years.


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Perhaps, the question could be rephrased "Your favourite instrument which has been traditionally used for playing folk music"   or "Your favourite traditional musci instrument" or similar.
The word "folk" is actually too vague as well as all sorts of instruments are used in the wider genre...everything from Bob Dylan "going electric" and beyond. :-)

Anyway, to answer the quesion. Probably the fiddle (I play mandolin as much, of course, but it's less traditional) and The Harp. I also like various "pipes" too although I've never tried these myself.

Also, don't forget the human voice either.

Subject: RE: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Oct 25 - 04:12 AM

Northumbrian pipes

Subject: RE: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: Helen
Date: 26 Oct 25 - 02:04 PM

And mine as some already know is the Celtic harp.

Subject: Tech: Your favourite 'Folk music' instrument.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Oct 25 - 02:02 PM

There are of course many instruments used in Folk music but which is your favourite?? Mine as some already know is the Uillean Pipes.