Drums

• Toumbeleki or darbouka plays rhythm in Northern Greece, began islands, and Asia Minor
• Daouli from Byzantine era is main rhythm instrument in continental Greece
• Defi is the Ancient Greek frame-drum still played throughout Greece

Wind Instruments

• Klaríno is a folk clarinet introduced to Greek by gypsies in mid-1800s . It combined with the traditional techniques of the floyéra and zornás to produce the Ancient Greek modes on western musical instruments
  • Essentially became a national instrument
• Zournás oboe like wide instrument like the Ancient Greek aulós which was part of traditional instrumentation of Continental Greece
• Tsamboúna - Gáida or bagpipes have been in Greece since almost 1st century AD
• Floyéra - Sourávli - Mandoúra principal pastoral instruments in Greece

String Instruments

• Kementzés is a bottle shaped fiddle that create polyphony by bowing multiple strings
• Violi or violin was introduced in 1600s and become one of made melodic instruments
• Kanonáki plucked instrument from Ancient Greece and Byzantium played using musical bridges that allow micro-intervals to be create by the traditional modal scales the musicians use
• Mandolináta is a mandolin based instrument ensemble with a guitar that had been common in Athens and Ionian islands since the end of the 1800s
• Laghouito or long-necked lutes comes from a combination of the ancient Greek panaoúra and the Arabic oúd and is part of the typical kompania (clarinet, violin, lute, dulcimer, and tambourine) as well as the Ziyiá (violin, lira, and lute) of the islands
• Kitahára after Second World War the guitar started replacing the laghouito and there was a time when they kind of became an intermediary instrument

Bells