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Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments

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The Museum of Popular Music Instruments is a museum and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in the Lassanis Mansion, Plaka, Athens, Greece.

It has about 600 Greek musical instruments from the last 300 years and has as many more in store.

The permanent exhibition is spread over three floors and divided into four sections. The instruments are classified according to the material, by the vibrations of which the sound.

The permanent collection includes:lyres,flogheras,defia,gaides,koudounia,laghouta,bouzoukia,souravlia,zournades, lalitsas, toubelekia and cretan lyras