Obscure folk instruments

  • Published Collections4

Collected by
DiscoKevin69420

Langspil

A traditional Icelandic fiddle, built by my grandfather. The playable range of the melodic string is sampled, plus some drones, strums and soundscapes made by sample manipulation.

  • Kontakt

Pipa

A Chinese plucked string instrument, sometimes described as the 'Chinese lute'. Kontakt 5.8+.

  • Kontakt

Electric Mandolin

An custom-made Electric Mandolin played with fingers, a plectrum and a hard mallet

  • Decent Sampler

MG Shimmers

An acoustic guitar tremolo library. From tranquil pads to rising tension, MG Shimmers sounds great on its own or to breathe life into other instruments.

  • Kontakt

Dictaphone Orchestra

Instruments recorded direct to microcassette. Includes trumpet, violin, clarinet, kalimba, toy piano and rajao.

  • Decent Sampler

Zitherone

A single sampled zither note, stretched from C1 to C6

  • Decent Sampler

Ukulele Swarm

An ukulele sounds like a big strings ensemble

  • Decent Sampler

String Quartet

String Quartet is a phrase-based library

  • Kontakt

Nordia Toolkit

A toolkit crafted over the years

  • Kontakt

MG Sweet Uke

A beautiful high-end ukulele, sampled to capture its sweetness, warmth and consistent clear tone. Great for intimate fingerpicked playing styles.

  • Kontakt

Baglamas – Greek Mini Bouzouki

This mini bouzouki I brought home from a trip to Athens and it's also my very first sampled instrument. It has a quite aggressive plucked dry sound. Apply splosh and tune to taste!

  • Kontakt

Cuatro Venezolano

This sample library is from the typical instrument of my country Venezuela besides that it use at almost all genres typical of venezuela, its sound is melancholy but sober. Perfect...

  • Decent Sampler

12 String Harp

A small celtic harp with 12 strings and no sharping levers...

  • Decent Sampler

Saw U

A Thai bowed-string instrument

  • Kontakt

Hugh’s Bouzouki

An old bouzouki that a friend lent me to sample. I finally got around to it. Kontakt 5.8.1

  • Kontakt

Imperfect Viola

A Viola with it's humanity intact.........

  • Kontakt

The Ektara

The Ektara is one of the oldest Indian stringed instruments. The physical instrument has a limited range so it is used as a drone instrument by the folk singers of India.

  • Decent Sampler

Nepali Sarangi

An ornamental form of the Nepali bowed folk Instrument.

  • Kontakt

The Wildmother’s Dulcimer Vol. II

A hammered dulcimer evoking forests and glades with evocative aleatoric playing as well as deeply-sampled standard articulations

  • Kontakt

Cedar Box Instrument

Built entirely from scratch, an idiosyncratic stringed instrument, with a percussive, plucked sound...

  • Decent Sampler

Bowl Lyre

A small bowl lyre-harp from Kenya

  • Kontakt

The Wildmother’s Dulcimer

A hammered dulcimer evoking forests and glades with evocative aleatoric playing as well as deeply-sampled standard articulations...

  • Kontakt

Bowzouki

An Irish Bouzouki bowed to imitate a Tagelharpa...

  • Kontakt

Riedel Teresa

A small sample pack of a small harp just for experiencing the process of creating a sample pack. Enjoy on your own risk.

  • Decent Sampler

Uncle Bill’s Serenader Baritone Ukulele

A vintage "Serenader" Baritone Ukulele - almost 100 years old.........

  • EXS24

Ornamental African Banjo

This pack endeavours to create a musical instrument out of a decorative piece that purports to be an instrument.

  • Decent Sampler

Ideal Bouzouki

An old bouzouki played with fingers and plectrum, accompanied by several pads...

  • Decent Sampler

Harpaphone

A tourist-shop souvenir harp resonating through a bouzouki top, resembling some kind of frankenstein kalimba/ukulele/balafon....

  • Kontakt

The Radio Lyre

An old cookie tin turned into a lyra

  • Decent Sampler

Cuatro Puertoriqueno

A handmade Puertorican folk Cuatro

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Robs Strummable Dulcimer Piano

A Seagull M4 Strummable Dulcimer turned Piano

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Strummed Mountain Dulcimer

A Mountain Dulcimer with controllable strumming options

  • Kontakt

Sufjanwho

A Canadian dulcimer through a reel to reel

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Kit lyre

A hand built Lyre played with paper clips, bowes and muted with paper

  • SFZ

Saraswati Veena

An Indian plucked instrument, used in Carnatic Music, a South Indian Classical Music

  • EXS24

Phil’s Banjo

A borrowed banjo recorded with a trusty SM57

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Saunakantele (Old detuned zither)

A very old and very out of tune zither sampled in a sauna!

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

Antique Zither v0.1

An antique zither with plenty of character. Currently in beta mode.

  • EXS24
  • Kontakt

Water Trumpet and Double Bass

A double bass and a trumpet recorded in different positions in the room. Made to emulate Spitfire's Evos.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24

Hildur’s Harpsichord

A 1973 Harpsichord. Recorded with a dented SM57. Destructively resampled to sound nothing like a Harpsichord.

  • Decent Sampler
  • EXS24
  • Kontakt

Dusty Old Autoharp

Autoharp from the 1800's sampled in many varieties.

  • Kontakt

Fiddle-lele

Hybrid instrument build from a baritone ukulele and an old fiddle.

  • Kontakt

Closet Harp

An ethereal celtic harp that sounds wonderful with a large hall reverb.

  • Decent Sampler
  • Kontakt

The Viking Log Lyre

The last and only log lyre in the world.

  • Decent Sampler