Hi Tobin,

difficult, while multidimensional, question. I will in a separate post try to find some videos for you. Even though Germany, and I do include here politically not quite correct our neighbors in Austria and Switzerland, is rather small, it is quite diverse.

The majority of what we're exposed to is Alpine type volksmusik that expands way down into Croatia, Serbia, and Italy.

For whatever reason YouTube is not available at the moment.

Here http://www.br.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/musik-in-den-bergen-104.html are several TV shows from the Bavarian TV (Bayerischer Rundfunk = Bavarian Broadcasting), I hope you can see them. The shows focus on the music of the general Alpine region giving samples of traditional (Volksmusik) and contemporary folkmusic (volkstümliche Musik).

You will know and hear the difference.

Traditional instruments are:
zither
hammered dulcimer
acoustic gutsting guitar usually fingerpicked accompaniment
tuba
trumpet and other horns
diatonic accordion with buttons

This conludes part one.

Guido


Edit: misspelled word "accompaniment" corrected

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