[YeGoblynQueenne]

Thanks for this- I'm not very well aware of the history of music. I was aware of the work of the Pythagoreans on music, but didn't realise it actually influenced anything.

Also, it's funny because what we consider "Greek" music nowadays is in the Eastern canon, influenced by the music of the Ottomans and the Near East in general (For example, see [1], a traditional Turkish song given Greek verse and performed in Greece since the 1930s at least). I myself play the Ney [2] and the toubeleki (darbuka [3]), and consider them both "traditional" or "folk", like most of my friends.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDzXPLX8JdQ

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ney

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblet_drum