Our traditional instruments : the “galoubet” & the tambourine 

Thegaloubet is a wind instrument of the flute family. His sound is very high. It’s an instrument with three holes, usually made of wood. It is played with one hand : the left one traditionally. The thumb is applied on the bottom hole and the 2 holes above are closed by the middle finger and the index finger. With the same fingering, several notes can be obtained by simply varying the intensity of the breath.

	The tambourine is a long barrel in plywood or solid wood, topped with 2 skins * the top skin is traditionally made of dead calf skin, * the bottom skin is generally thicker. A very small cord is placed on the top skin, it’s giving the humming sound so specific to the tambourine.
The galoubet & tambourine is played by a single musician : the “Tambourinaire” (a tambourine-man). This musician strkes the top skin of his tambourine in same time that his left hand is playing galoubet. The tambourine is stroked with a kind of drumstick generally made of wood & called “massette”.

However to combine modernity & tradition, & to help our traditional Provençal instrument to live over the time, we insert in our group some instruments such as : oboe (“graille”) , clarinet, guitar, bagpipe …

Come & discover our group !