| Name | Image | Description | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cimpoi |  | Cimpoi, the Romanian bagpipe, has a single drone and straight bore chanter and is less strident than its Balkan relatives. The number of finger holes varies from five to eight and there are two types of cimpoi with a double chanter. The bag is often covered with embroidered cloth. The bagpipe can be found in most of Romania apart from the central, northern and eastern parts of Transylvania. | |
| Cobza |  | The cobza or cobsa is a type of four-course (triple-strung courses) folk lute found primarilly in Romania and Moldova . Some courses had 3 strings. The cobza was tuned in fifths similar to the mandolin. In Hungary the same instrument is known as the koboz. Both are now increasingly rare. The cobza is a short necked, unfretted lute very similar to the oud of Iraq and Syria. It consists of a half-pearshaped resonance box with a belly made of thin spruce and a short broad neck of strong wood, whose pegbox is bent back at an obtuse or right angle. The image shows a part of "The Last Judgment" painting painted on the exterior of the Church of St. George at Voronet Monastery, Romania. | |
| Nai |  | Nai is a Romanian pan pipe. In the 19th century the nai - originally a shepherd's instrument with only 8 to 10 pipes, covering a little more than one octave - had been extended to about 20 pipes, giving far greater possibilities to a solo performer. Gheorghe Zamfir (born 1941) is a Romanian pan flute musician. He expanded the nai of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, obtaining as many as nine tones from each pipe by changing the embouchure. |
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