# Palmos Instruments


## Posts

- [Collaborations](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/collaborations/)

## Pages

- [Contact](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/contact/)
- [Lyre Lessons](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/lyre-lessons/)
- [Atelier](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/atelier/): The master luthier atelier “Palmos” is a family business, active since 2011 by Nikolaos and Giorgos Nikas due to their love for ancient Greek music and philosophy and has been operating with continuous presence and development since 2011, focusing on the study and reconstruction of musical instruments that are exact replicas of ancient Greek ones, while also bringing them into the present as fully functional musical instruments capable of meeting the high expectations of modern musicians. The study of historical sources—from texts of Ancient Greek mythology and scientific musical treatises, to the observation of visual depictions on pottery—provided us with […]
- [Kithara](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/kithara/): MORE INFOS SOON  
- [Barbitos](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/barbitos/): Barbitos follows the rules that our lyres have, since it is an instrument very similar to the lyre. Its sound is deep and warm and accompanies both male and female voices perfectly. The Barbitos uses the same type of shells as our lyres. Producing harmonics on the Barbitos can be a more difficult process due to the long length of the string compared to the lyre, but the sound produced by the Barbito’s harmonics is excellent.
- [Psalteries](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/psalteries/): In ancient Greece, the term psaltērion was a general name used to describe various plucked stringed instruments that resembled harps or zithers. It did not refer to a single, standardized type of instrument, but rather to a category of instruments with a common characteristic in the way they were played: The name comes from the verb ψάλλω (“to pluck, to pluck”), meaning that the sound was produced by plucking the strings with the fingers. The most important are the Trigonon, the Piktis, the Magadis and the Epigonion. The type of psaltery that we have reconstructed is the triangle of the […]
- [Pandoura](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/pandoura/): Pandoura, pandourida or trichordon is a musical instrument that belongs to the lute family. It is the only one of this style that we find in ancient Greece and unfortunately we do not have much information about it. The name trichordon tells us (since in the Greek language it means three strings) the number of its strings. Regarding the name pandoura, some scholars argue that it is a purely Greek word, possibly derived from “pan” and “dory” (totally from wood), while others believe that it has an eastern (Mesopotamian) origin, from the Sumerian word pandur or pantur, which means “small […]
- [Lyre](https://new.palmosinstruments.com/lyre/): After many studies and tests in search of the good sound, we ended up producing two basic models of lyre based on the type of soundbox, which is now a wooden replica of a tortoise shell that functions as a resonator. Both models that we reconstruct are of professional specifications. One type is based on a broken shell of a Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca) that was found and collected on Mount Helicon, and reconstructed so that the study could be done on it. This type of lyre has a more internal and peaceful sound and we would say that it […]
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