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baglamas [not yet ready]
beat Greek folk music uses the time signatures 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, and 11/8.
bouzouki a pear-shaped string instrument whose name comes from the Turkish word for 'head'.
clarinet [not yet ready]
Dalaras, George [not yet ready]
defi  [not yet ready]
Dora Stratou folk dance theatre a folk dance theatre near the Acropolis in Athens
dulcimer see santdouri
Epirot clarinet [not yet ready]
five tone scale unlike other Western music in which notes are placed in do-re-me (C-D-E) order, Greek music follows the order order do-do sharp-mi (C-C sharp-E)
Gioconda's Smile an album recorded in New York in 1964 by Manos Hadjidakis
guitar [not yet ready]
Hadjidakis, Manos a composer whose works include Giaconda's Smile, Six Images of the People
lyra a stringed instrument from Crete
Markopoulos, Yannis a composer from Crete whose works include Periodia Proti (1978)
Periodia Proti a 1978 album by Yannis Markopoulos, featuring the Cretan lyra
Plessas, Mimis a composer, formerly a jazzman, who has written a lot of film soundtracks
rebetika, rembetika [not yet ready]
rebetiko, rembetiko [not yet ready]
santdouri a dulcimer - the instrument played by Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek
Six Images of the People an album by Manos Hadjidakis
taksimi [not yet ready]
Theodorakis, Mikis a composer
Thracian bagpipe [not yet ready]
Tsitsanis a songwriter
violin [not yet ready]
Voskopoulos, Tolis a popular singer