Instrumentation
- arpicelli: The Viggiano harp
- bena: A Sardinian clarinet
- bifora, also pifara: a Sicilian double reed instrument of the oboe family, related to the shawm and to the piffero
- bunkula: A cello.
- cannacione: A historical, rural form of lute
- cembalo: A hammered dulcimer
- chitarra: A guitar, also a voice in trallalero ensembles that imitates the guitar
- chitarra battente: A four- or five-steel stringed guitar, beating guitar
- chiterra: A Sardinian guitar
- ciaramella: A single-reed pipe, or oboe, also a bagpipe in Alta Sabina
- citira: A violin
- du' bottë: Abruzzese double bass diatonic accordion
- firlinfeu: A panflute
- fisarmonica: A chromatic piano accordion
- friscalettu: A Sicilian folk flute
- ghironda: A hurdy-gurdy most common in Emilia, Lombardy and Piedmont
- launeddas: A Sardinian clarinet, played using circular breathing
- lira: A three-stringed bowed fiddle, played on the knee, most common in Calabria
- mandola: A string instrument similar to both the guitar and mandolin
- mandolino: An Italian lute with eight or twelve strings
- müsa: A bagpipe
- organetto: A diatonic button accordion which accompanies the saltarello, and has largely replaced the bagpipe
- piffaro, piffero: A double-reed shawm
- piva: A kind of Lombard bagpipe
- putipù: A friction drum
- raganelle: A cog rattle
- ribeba: An alternate term, rebab, for the scacciapensieri
- scacciapensieri: A mouth harp found in the Alpine north and Sicily, care-chaser
- simbalo: A tambourine
- solitu: A Sardinian traditional shepherd's flute
- surdulina: A bagpipe from Basilicata
- tamburello: A small frame drum, used to accompany the tarantella, also a tambourine
- tamburini: A tambourine
- tammora: A large frame drum
- tamura: A large frame drum
- torototela: A bowed, one-string fiddle, most common in northeast Italy
- triangulu: A Sardinian triangle
- triccheballacche: A Neapolitan percussion instrument, built with mallets attached to a wooden frame, wooden clapper
- tromba degli zingari: An alternate term, trumpet of the Gypsies, for the scacciapensieri
- trunfa: A Sardinian jaw harp, or mouth harp, trump, similar to the scacciapensieri
- tumborro: A Sardinian tambourine
- zampogna: A southern Italian bagpipe, most commonly with two drones and two conical chanters
- zampogna a paro: A single-reed and two- or three drone zampogna, found in Calabria and Sicily
- zampogna zoppa: A mostly double-reed and variably droned zampogna, found in central Italy
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