A balalaika is a triangle-shaped string instrument with a fretted neck, hollow body and three strings. Two of them are tuned to the same note and the third is tuned a perfect fourth higher. "Children ...

This instrument, most probably, originated from the words “to talk”, “to babble”. Musicians would play the balalaika and “babble” some folk lyrics - it was a rather popular leisure among peasants. At ...

Elina Karokhina plays the balalaika, a Russian stringed instrument onstage at the seventh annual Russian Festival Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, at St. Vladimir Orthodox Church in Dexter. Karokhina ...

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 ...

Over the years, we've seen Rob Scallon turn just about everything he can think of into a metal instrument. Heck, even the shovel made for some interesting metal licks. His latest experiment finds him ...

After nearly 15 years of helping build Iowa City's status as a mecca for those interested in the Russian guitar and making efforts toward reviving the instrument, Oleg Timofeyev finally felt his ...