The craft of making folk musical instruments constitutes a special craft in the general picture of Albanian craftsmanship.
Until the moment when the first instrument-making shops began to open (second half of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century), folk musical instruments were made by each family themselves, and in particular by the bearers of folklore.
In the artisanal way in Albania, instruments such as bagpipes, fiddles, double flutes, zifteli, sharki, lute, tambourine, drum, lauri, buzuk, bakllama etc. have been produced and are still being produced.
In most cases, the craftsmen who produced the tools worked simultaneously on other folk craft products.
The narrow profiling of tool-making masters was formed around the beginning of the century. XX.
