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| Åland ALAND - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | The stamp depicts Alie Lindberg and her piano. Alie made an extraordinary journey - from her life as the daughter of a Kastelholm jailer to the great stages of Europe as a concert pianist. | | Contact |
| | | Albania ALBANIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 Oct 2014 | | | Contact |
| | | Spain ANDORRA - SPAIN - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 23 Apr 2014 | It is a type of button accordion on which the melody-side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the notes of a single diatonic scale. It is used mainly for playing popular music and traditional folk music. | | Contact |
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| Armenia ARMENIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 24 May 2014 | The Armenian national instrument “PKU” against the background of an abstract from the Armenian miniature depicting a musician playing pku-type instrument. | | Contact |
| | | Austria AUSTRIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The stamp motif shows an Alpine concert zither in the traditional Salzburg design – the type of zither most frequently made and used today. | | Contact | | Österreichische Post AG | Sammler-Service | Rochusplatz 1 | 1030 Wien | Austria | | T: | +43 1250254040 | F: | +43 1250254080 | E: | sammler-service@post.at... |
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| | | Azerbaijan AZERBAIJAN - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 07 Feb 2014 | The stamp pictures one of the national instruments of Azerbaijan. | | Contact |
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| Belarus BELARUS - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 06 Mar 2014 | The stamp depicts a Belarusian “Horum”, an ancient music instrument resembling a pumpkin ball with inserted therein zhaleyka (pipe). The instrument was reconstructed by the Belarusian master Vladimir Puzynya whose name is printed on the stamp.
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| | | Belgium BELGIUM - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 07 Jul 2014 | On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Adolphe Sax, the Europa issue is dedicated to the saxophone and to the saxophonist. The image of the saxophone is printed with a transparant hot foil with embossing. | | Contact |
| | | Bosnia and Herzegovina BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - BH POSTA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | Traditional Bosnian song Sevdalinka is lyrical, urban song that was created five centuries ago in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the root of the word "Sevdah" is the word "love," and it implies a way of life. In musical terms sevdalinka is characterized by light, slow or moderate tempo (rubato), and very rich musical melody with many ornaments. | | Contact |
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - CROATIAN POST MOSTAR - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 05 Apr 2014 | Dual flutes or Herzegovinian instruments are in fact two flutes that are made from one piece of wood in that way both can be played simultaneously. It is most often made out of dry maple wood, plum, cherry, cornelian cherry or „kljen“ wood. | | Contact |
| | | Bosnia and Herzegovina BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA - POSTE SREPSKE- EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 25 Apr 2014 | | | Contact |
| | | Bulgaria BULGARIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 29 Apr 2014 | Folk Musician playing the drum | | Contact |
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| Croatia CROATIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The stamp depicts a lijerica. The lijerica is a musical instrument from the Croatian region of Dalmatia. It is a pear-shaped, three-stringed instrument which is played with a bow. It is played to accompany the traditional dances from the region.
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| | | Cyprus CYPRUS -EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 02 May 2014 | The “laouton” (lute) is the principal musical string instrument of Cyprus, which rhythmically accompanies the violin in Cypriot dance melodies and in particular in the Cypriot Suite that is unique, because it is still alive at present and is associated with both male and female dancing. The laouton has 4 double strings and are tuned in five-courses: Do-Sol-Re-La. It is played with a long narrow plectrum that the player (“lutenist”) usually passes through his fingers. Its predecessor is the ancient Greek pandoura or pandourida. | | Contact |
| | | Czech Republic CZECH REPUBLIC - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 30 Apr 2014 | Bagpipes are an ancient folk musical instrument. Originally they were simple wind instruments, which probably originated more than 4000 years ago in Egypt. From there they have spread into Europe.
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| Denmark DENMARK - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 15 Mar 2014 | The motif of the Danish stamp is a special grand piano, designed by a famous Danish artist Poul Henningsen. The grand piano is still produced, however, to a limited extent. | | Contact |
| | | Faroe Islands FAROE ISLANDS - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 28 Apr 2014 | The stamp show a photo from the Faroese Symphony Orchestra from 2012. | | Contact |
| | | Finland FINLAND - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 05 May 2014 | Designer has illustrated a thoroughly Finnish instrument: the kantele. Being a fan of folk music, the designer approaches the traditional theme from a modern and personal perspective. | | Contact |
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| France FRANCE - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 04 May 2014 | The harp represented on the stamp is manufactured and sealed by the stringed-instrument Master Maker J.H. Naderman in 1787. Diatonic instrument on which it is possible to play only seven notes of the range, the harp , from the Renaissance on, will be endowed with a second or even third row of ropes, offering to the musician the access to the twelve semitones of the octave. | | Contact |
| | | Germany GERMANY - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | Developed in the early 18th century clarinet represents a flexible instrument flexible with a range of four octaves. In modern times, the clarinet climbed to the peak of its popularity and is played in the orchestra, military bands and jazz. High trumpet tones are possible with the clarinet. In a Nuremberg music workshop , the prototype of this instrument is said to have originated more than 300 years ago . The design is attributed to Johann Christoph Denner ( 1655-1707 ) . The efficient instrument makers developed the clarinet in the early 18th century, probably from the Chalumeau. | | Contact |
| | | Gibraltar GIBRALTAR - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 02 May 2014 | The Gibraltar Regimental Band perform regularly in Gibraltar at ceremonial and charity events and has also performed internationally on a number of occasions. The Gibraltar Regimental Band recently performed at Buckingham Palace as can be seen on the stamps. | | Contact |
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| Greece GREECE - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 19 May 2014 | | | Contact |
| | | Greenland GREENLAND - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 20 Jan 2014 | The sizes of the Inuit drums vary. The largest are more than one metre in diameter. The smallest stem from the Thule region in North Greenland and are very light. Formerly the drum was said to possess special powers. | | Contact | | TELE-POST | Filatelia | | 9999 | 3900 Nuuk | Greenland | | T: | +299 981155 | F: | +299 981432 | E: | stamps@tele.gl... |
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| | | Guernsey GUERNSEY - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | It is a close up photograph of an original Chifournie, showing the intricacies of this interesting instrument. You can see and hear the instrument being played by uising your tablet or smart phone dowload the SEPAC or Lowe-Martin APP from the APP Store, and hover your smart phone over the stamps to trigger the video.
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| Hungary HUNGARY - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The stamp of Magyar Posta (Hungary) features an old Hungarian music instrument, the Jew’s harp (doromb). | | Contact |
| | | Iceland ICELAND - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | The stoneharp: In 2001 the artist Páll Gudmundsson in Húsafell created a new musical instrument, the so-called stoneharp. The harp consists of stones, each of which forms one tone in a three and a half octave instrument. The stoneharp is composed of rhyolite stone slabs. This instrument is probably unique in music history. It was used in the composition Odin’s Raven Magic which the Icelandic band Sigur Rós performed along with musicians and singers. | | Contact |
| | | Ireland IRELAND - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | Having a musical instrument as a national emblem sets Ireland apart from many other countries. In medieval times, Ireland was famous throughout Europe for harp music. Harpists travelled around Ireland playing at special events. The stamp features a harp made by John Egan, a leading Irish harp maker from 1801-1841. During his career, he is said to have made over 2,000 harps. | | Contact |
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| Isle of Man ISLE OF MAN - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 06 Jan 2014 | | | Contact |
| | | Italy ITALY - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The 0,85 stamp features a launeddas player dressed in Sardinian folk costume.
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| | | Jersey JERSEY - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 25 Mar 2014 | The stamp has been designed to reflect the Jazz festival taking place on the island and features a saxophone. | | Contact |
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| Latvia LATVIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 11 Apr 2014 | The kokle (or kuōkle) is a Latvian plucked string musical instrument (chordophone), of the zither family. It is similar in construction and origin to the Lithuanian kanklės, Russian gusli, Estonian kannel and Finnish kantele. | | Contact | | Latvia Post Philatelic Department | Customer Service | Ziemelu iela 10, Lidosta "Riga", Marupes Pagasts | 1000 Riga Rajons | Latvia | | T: | +371 7018736 | F: | +371 7018729 | E: | infofil@pasts.lv... | Website | http://www.pasts.lv |
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| | | Liechtenstein LIECHTENSTEIN -EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 10 Mar 2014 | | | Contact |
| | | Lithuania LITHUANIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 03 May 2014 | The postage stamp depict the following Lithuanian national musical instruments: wooden bells and cow horn reed-pipes. They are unique and specific to Lithuanian musicians. The background of the postage stamp portrays a Lithuanian landscape. | | Contact |
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| Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | A group of musicians, all dressed in the peasant period costume, play "Hämmelsmarsch" on traditional instruments. | | Contact |
| | | Malta MALTA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The Maltese bagpipe is made of a whole animal skin, usually goat or calf. The instrument is tucked under the arm with legs pointing upwards and inflated through a blowpipe inserted into one of the skin’s forelegs. It is played on a two-piped chanter terminating in a cattle horn. A frame drum always accompanies the bagpipe. The musical duo is particularly associated with the Christmas season. | | Contact |
| | | Moldova MOLDOVA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 22 Mar 2014 | On the postage stamps with face value of 3 lei is depicted the cimbalom, a national musical string instrument. It is best known as a folklore instrument. With the help of the so-called hammers the cimbalom strings are made to vibrate producing musical sounds. It is used as a solo and accompaniment instrument in the folklore orchestras. | | Contact |
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| Monaco MONACO - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 07 May 2014 | The folk group " Palladian of Monaco " has for mission the preservation of the Monaco traditions and the folklore. The young dancers execute choreographies on airs of mandolin played by the musicians of the group. A way of immortalizing the Monaco inheritance | | Contact |
| | | Montenegro MONTENEGRO - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 18 Apr 2014 | Gusle is a traditional instrument from the south Balkans with one or sometimes two strings. It is usually made of maple wood. As a single-string instrument, gusle can be found in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dalmatia. The strings are made of thirty twisted horse hairs, as well as the cord of the bow. Gusle played an important role in the history of Montenegrin epic poetry, since gusle players – folk singers had sung about the events from the national history for centuries, before they were finally written down. | | Contact |
| | | Netherlands NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 22 Apr 2014 | Dutch street organs are large organs that play book music. The stamp shows detail of dutch street organs. | | Contact |
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| Poland POLAND - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 05 May 2014 | The stamp shows a fragment of Polish instrument:The white wedding Goat. | | Contact |
| | | Portugal PORTUGAL - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The “Gaita-de-Foles” (Bagpipe), in the Miranda Plateau - northeast of mainland Portugal was until recently made by hand, using typical materials from local agro-pastoralism. It is regarded throughout Europe as a rare specimen of this type of aerophone, for having kept its medieval pattern and peculiar tuning precepts. | | Contact |
| | | Portugal PORTUGAL - MADEIRA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The “Brinquinho”, or "Bailhinho", is a percussion instrument that became a hallmark of the Madeira Archipelago. Visually appealing, it is composed of cloth dolls (usually seven figures, both male and female), dressed in traditional clothing, bearing castanets and ribbons, arranged at the extremities of a rattle-like cane, in two or more circular series of unequal diameter.
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| Portugal PORTUGAL- ACORES - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | The viola must have reached the Azores inside the luggage of the first settlers coming from the Continent. Then, in the islands, it became a chordophone of distinctive features, called “Viola da Terra” (Viola from the homeland). It stands out for its metallic double strings, which give it a more pure sound, and for its vibrant timbre, sometimes making a melody sound like a cry. | | Contact | | PORTUGAL - CTT Portugal Post - Philately Department | Edifício CTT | Av. D. João II, Lt 01.12.03, Piso 4 | P-1999-001 Lisbon | Portugal | | T: | +351 210 470 666 | E: | filatelia@ctt.pt... | Website | http://www.ctt.pt |
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| | | Romania ROMANIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 05 May 2014 | A purely traditional folk instrument: the tulnic (similar with the alphorn). It is represented both in the hands of the angel appearing in the iconography of Voronet Monastery, Moldavia, a bold achievement of Moldavian craftsmen, and also in the hands of a mountain girl, a gentle keeper of ancient customs and traditions.
| | Contact | | ROMFILATELIA | 28 Fabrica de Chibrituri Str., District 5 | 050183 Bucharest | Romania | | T: | +40 213369391 | F: | +40 213372448 | E: | office@romfilatelia.ro... |
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| | | Russian Federation RUSSIAN FEDERATION - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 30 Apr 2014 | The stamp depicts Russian traditional folk festival with singing and dancing with the accompaniment of musical instruments, especially the balalaika. | | Contact |
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| San Marino SAN MARINO - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 17 Mar 2014 | The € 0.70 stamp shows a trumpet; The stamp also mentions the caption “National musical instruments”. The designer inserted in the trumpet the reflection of the First Tower, one of the three “feathers” symbol of Mount Titano.
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| | | Republic of Serbia SERBIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 28 Apr 2014 | On the stamp with the value of 74,00 rsd: Music instrument bagpipe, in the background man in national folk costume with bagpipe and authentic landscape from eastern Serbia.
| | Contact | | Public Enterprise Post of Serbia | WU „Srbijamarka“ | Palmoticeva 2 | 11000 Belgrade | Republic of Serbia | | T: | +381 11 306 32 60 | F: | +381 11 364 18 55 | E: | rjsrbijamarka@jp.ptt.rs... |
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| | | Slovak Republic SLOVAK REPUBLIC - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 05 May 2014 | On the postage stamp is depicted a bagpipe with three drones from Slovakia. The begpipe is from the collections of the Museum of Music in Dolna Krupa. Throughout Slovakia the bagpipes with three drones are the most popular. In 2013 the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic included the bagpipes and bagpipers culture in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Slovakia.
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| Slovenia SLOVENIA - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 30 May 2014 | The Haloze Flute | | Contact |
| | | Spain SPAIN - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 23 Apr 2014 | Francisco Sánchez Gómez, known as Paco de Lucía, was born in Algeciras in the province of Cadiz, in 1947, and died in Cancún in Mexico in 2014. Recognised as the best flamenco guitarist of all time and the one with worldwide prestige, he fused flamenco with other types of music and styles, such as jazz, bossa nova, pop, tango and classical music. He received the Príncipe de Asturias prize for Arts in 2004. The guitar is a plucked string instrument. It consists of a wooden sound box, a neck with a finger board and frets and the six strings, three made of gut and three of silk cased in metal;
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| | | Sweden SWEDEN - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | Sweden Post has chosen to highlight the Nyckelharpa, a traditional string instrument that has currently been experiencing a renaissance both in Sweden and internationally. The Nyckelharpa has a special sound that is created by the resonance strings located under the melody strings. The stamp shows Olov Johansson, 47, one of the world’s most prominent Nyckelharpa performers, playing the Nyckelharpa. He tours in both the USA and Japan.
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| Switzerland SWITZERLAND - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 08 May 2014 | The Alp horn used to be the instrument of the poor rural population. An Alp horn is traditionally made out of the lower part of a crooked spruce and is about 3.4 metres long. The sound it makes can be heard from up to 10 kilometers. The Schwyzerörgeli is also a typical Swiss instrument. It’s a kind of small accordion. | | Contact |
| | | Türkiye TURKEY - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 09 May 2014 | | | Contact | | The Republic Of Türkiye, Post and Telegraph Corporation | Promotion and Marketing Dept. - Philately and Museum Section | Şehit Teğmen Kalmaz No:2 Floor:2 | 06050 Ulus Ankara | Türkiye | | E: | filateli@ptt.gov.tr... |
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| | | Ukraine UKRAINE - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 06 May 2014 | Cossack Mamai is one of the most popular figures in Ukrainian folk painting and he represents the generalized, popular image of the Ukrainian Cossacks. The kobza in the hands of Mamai symbolizes the singing soul of the Ukrainian people.
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| Vatican City VATICAN - EUROPA 2014 Date of issue: 20 May 2014 | The Philatelic Office will dedicate its postage stamp issue to the pipe organ, considered the most appropriate musical instrument for sacred use. The stamp features the Biagi organ in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Rome, Italy.
| | Contact | | Ufficio Filatelico e Numismatico - Governatorato | | 00120 Città del Vaticano | Vatican City | | T: | +39 06 698 83165 | F: | +39 06 698 83799 | E: | order.ufn@scv.va... |
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