YKYKbandSambuca & Bendir DrumImprovisation with ancient Greek instruments

Improvisation with Sambuca and Bendir Drum. Sambuca or Samviki is a chordophone instrument from ancient Greece (475-450 BC), used a turtle shell and a skin to create the soundboard. In the ancient pictures usually appears with a vertical bridge for the strings, resting on the skin. Both instruments in the video are built by Luthieros, song improvisation composed from YK Band (Yerko Lorca & Kuan Yin) . Interpretation performed at the Seikilo Museum, in Thessaloniki, Greece. Luthieros: