Lithuanian traditional musical instruments in context with Ukrainian tradition

Traditional musical instruments consist important part of whole content of material and immaterial folk culture heritage for all nations, all regional and local cultures and in all folk life in general. And it is well-known the situation - borders of actual regional outspread of each musical instrument, including even the most primitive ones, never fit to historical and contemporary state borders and other administrative divisions. This is the reason of actual comparative scientific works putting side by side local music instruments from neighbouring and even far away situated regions and states, and to have an idea this way to see their similarities and differences. Those collections of information about instruments for such comparative tasks include wide list of their particular features - way of making sound, construction and constructional details, repertoire, place and time of playing, and, of course-the social and cultural reason of such music making. The same we have to say about all sorts of instrumental ensembles. Lithuanian folk music instruments are classified according to well-known clas-sification system by Erich Maria von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs), presented in Berlin, 1914. This way we have idiophones, membranophones. chordophones, and aerophones, together with a number of everyday life and household subjects to make some more or less musical sound. And we have in Lithuania international and alien folk music instruments, which are not unique but well-known in local folk life (such as fiddle, accordions, bag-pipes, cymbals, etc.). We also admit in Lithuanian local traditions division of all folk music instru-ments as instruments "for dance", "shepherds", "warning" ones, because of their function in social life. It is similar to classification of Ukrainian instrumental music as "kobzarsko-lyrical creativity", "dance music", "no dance music". Beside native instruments we have in Lithuania a number of them related with Ukrainian ones. [...] It is very important for both Ukrainian and Lithuanian ethnomusicologists to share information concerning our local traditional instrumental music, including particular instruments, their making, tuning, scales, repertoire, way of making music, etc. We just started this action in our article presenting at first the classification and shapes of our traditional music instruments. All other aspects we do hope present in our future publications