Musical Instruments and Ritual Properties

There are 5 400 exhibits preserved in this stock. The main collections are: gramophones and gramophone records, shepherd’s pipes, martenitsa (twined tasselled red and white thread, symbol of spring and health), and Easter eggs. The phonograph from the first Plovdiv Fair, the street organs, the pianos, the gramophones (some of them dating back to the beginning of 20th c.) together with the gramophone records represent the urban culture of the past century. Besides, the stock has a variety of folk musical instruments from the region available such as bagpipes, wooden pipes, shepherd’s pipes, rebecs, ocarinas, drums.
The stock also includes most of the personal archives of the renowned Bulgarian musician, orchestra conductor and musicologist Angel Boukureshtliev. This is the place where one can see the harmonium owned by Naiden Gerov from the early 1960s of 19th century. It was the first keyboard musical instrument delivered to Plovdiv for fashionable use.

The stock is presented in one exhibit hall.