This ancient musical instrument has been around since the 9th century. It has from 5 to 60 strings, and the player - a guslyar - can use both fingers and a mediator, depending on the gusli’s size.

Its definition read: "A three-stringed musical instrument in the form of a guitar, played by strumming the strings with fingers." ... but he also taught Russian folk music at university, ...

Instruments don't die the same way breathing things do. Brass can can tarnish, strings can fray, but if a musical instrument isn't played, it can be forgotten by a culture; more museum piece than ...

The gusli, an ancient Russian musical instrument, is finding new audiences. A 30-year-old Russian entrepreneur set up a factory in his hometown to build them. Sergey Gorchakov and his craftsmen ...

Russian scientist and musical savant Leon Theremin. ... Theremin then devised a freestanding musical instrument based on his discovery, which he sensationally debuted in the United States in 1928.

A visitor looks at a traditional slavic music instrument gusli in the Museum of Gusli and Guqin in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 12, 2020. The Museum of Gusli and Guqin -- traditional Russian and ...

1,700-Year-Old Musical Instrument Found, and It Still Works. The mouth harp was recently discovered in the Altai Mountains region of Russia and still makes music after well over a millennium.

MOSCOW -- Move over vuvuzela players. The musical instrument to master for this year's World Cup is the Russian spoon. Eight years after South Africans blared away on their plastic vuvuzela horns ...

Russian physicist and engineer Lev Sergeyevich Termen—who later came to be widely known as Léon Theremin—invented his namesake instrument around 1920. Here, he's pictured in 1928. Library of ...

From its chance 1920s invention in Russia, the theremin beguiled Hollywood and sparked a musical revolution, writes Norman Miller. The theremin sometimes seems like an instrument from Earth’s ...

A musical instrument made from a Russian missile will be featured at a concert held at Blenheim Palace on Saturday night. The Gala Dinner for Ukraine at the estate in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, is ...