Guimbarde

      Guimbarde is a strummed instrument, on territory of Latvia it is found in excavations of XIII-XVIII centuries. There are data about playing on guimbarde from the second half of XIX century. To Latvia guimbarde, probably, has been taken from Germans or Tatars.

Guimbardes

    Guimbarde consists of a curved metallic twig, to the middle of which a steel reed is soldered. When the twig is put against the teeth and with other hand the reed is strummed, there appears a sound Which is amplified by a resonator - the oral cavity. Height of the sound changes by changing the dimension of the oral cavity.