Music could be heard mostly on holidays, and was to be danced to and to accompany rituals. It was best when it was loud. The best instruments to be used by a band were violins, drums, basolias, cimbaloms and bagpipes – once the most popular wind instrument in Poland but found only in Wielkopolska and the Carpathian region in the 19th century. Instruments were usually made by musicians themselves or by rural artisans (the latter were the makers of instruments you can see here, with the exception of the squeezebox). There are built out of the materials their creators could find in the vicinity. These were mostly timber and animal parts: skins, horns, intestines, bladders and hair.