Nearly all instruments used by Bauls have alternative names; these given below are common ones. Some alternatives are listed at the end of each entry when appropriate.
Ektara
Duggi
Ghungur & Nupur
The above three instruments taken together have acquired a strong association with the conventional and idealized image of the Baul performer.
Khamak
Khanjoni
Khol
Dotara
Violin
Sarinda
Kartal & Mandira
Violin
Introduced by westerners several hundred years ago, the violin is no longer thought of as a foreign instrument, so successfully has it been adapted to the needs of Indian music. In Bengal, it has been used by kirtan groups from whom the Bauls probably picked it up as they did the khol. Strings are usually of metal rather than gut, and are tuned in a common Indian way to low tonic, fifth, higher tonic, and fourth. Just as its tuning, stringing, and repertory have changed in India, so too has its playing technique.