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Welcome to the virtual collection of traditional instruments from the Ethnographic Museum of Istria! You are invited to explore the collection and to get to know more about the project; to share the information with others and participate in creating new content for this virtual collection, dedicated to traditional Istrian instruments. This is just the beginning...

Istrian scale refers both to a distinct musical scale and the Istrian and Kvarnerian folk music genres which use the scale. Named for the Istrian peninsula; genres include kanat and tarankanje; techniques include nasal tone, variation and improvisation, and resolution to the unison or octave; and instruments include sopele shawms, bagpipes, flutes, and tambura lutes. It was first studied or conceived by Ivan Matetić Ronjgov.

by Ivan Pavacic Jecalicev, melographer The two-part music with narrow intervals of the islands of the northern Adriatic, the area around Rijeka and Istria is a unique tonal system in vernacular music, on a European scale. Studying Croatian musical history, musicologists have given plenty of space to research into this manner of making music. (...) This two-part music is based on an untempered hexatonic system disposed in such a way that no other tone can be accommodated between the existing six tones.

Istrian traditional music is based on untuned Istrian music scale. The singing of the songs are usually executed in pair in thirds and the most popular dance is balun.