Biographical note

Ovidiu Papană worked at the West University of Timișoara's Faculty of Arts (Romania) for 20 years, where he taught ethnomusicology and musical acoustics. He is currently an independent researcher and collector of Romanian and foreign traditional musical instruments (460 musical instruments and 70 musical toys). His current work is focused on organology studies.He has published 13 ethnomusicology books (in Romanian). The most important studies are contained in the last four organology volumes: Romanian Traditional Musical Instruments, Acoustic-Musical Studies (I – chordophone musical instruments, II aerophone musical instruments, III – membranophonic musical instruments, and IV – idiophone musical instruments).