Museum of Folk Musical Instruments
ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΛΑΪΚΩΝ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΩΝ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΝ
The Museum presents the collection of about 1200 Greek popular musical instruments from the 18th century to the present day, the fruit of a half century of research and study by the late musicologist Fivos Anoyanakis and is housed in the historical Lassanis Mansion, which was built in 1842, close to the Roman Agora, in the district of Plaka.
The Museum of Greek Popular Musical Instruments.
 Musical instrument display.
The out-building is converted into an annex that now houses the Research Center and the archives, storerooms, a lecture hall and the Museum shop. In the garden of the Museum recitals of Greek traditional music take place. About half of the instruments forming the Anoyianakis Collection are on public display. The rest are stored and used for loans to exhibitions elsewhere.
The permanent exhibition is spread over three floors and divided into four sections, corresponding to the groups of determined by the material that is made to vibrate in order to produce sound, namely: - Membranophones: Toumbelekia (pottery drums), daoulia (drums), defia (tambourines) - Aerophones: Flogeres - souravlia - mandoures (flutes), tsabounes, gaides (bagpipes), zournades (shawms), - Chordophones: Tambourades, laghouta (long-necked lutes), outia (short-necked lutes), quitars, mandolins, dulcimers etc., - Idiophones koudounia (bells), massies (tongs with cymbals) simandro (semanterion) etc. The objectives of the Museum and Research Center, as stated in the foundation charter, are as follows:
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The courtyard of the Museum of Greek Popular Musical Instruments.
