Instruments

 When forming the ensemble it was decided to upgrade the ancient Lithuanian folk instruments and form a folk instrument orchestra. The concert practice called for development of timbrally rich, technically flexible, acoustically strong and modally broad instruments. It was offered to include kanklės (zither) and its modernized version klaviklės, skudučiai (panpipes), mediniai trimitai (wooden trumpets), daudytės (pipes),

lamzdeliai (recorders), birbynės (folk clarinets), tošelės (reeds), pūslinė (a bow made from a pig’s bladder filled with dried peas), skrabalai (cow bells), tabalai (gongs) and other rattles, as well as certain shepherd instruments.