In Russia for a long time, his own instrument "7 string guitar" has been played. It is a seven-string guitar which was proud of high popularity around the 19th century, but now in the 21st century, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT is quite normal to play the balalaika and the domra in some schools in Wythenshawe - the Russian string instruments are the only ones on offer in some of the primary schools in the area. For ...