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 ...

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 ...

Today though, it has been transformed into a musical instrument, making it a beautiful symbol of hope and peace, having been hollowed out and its explosive components replaced by a bow from a cello.It ...

Moscow, January 31 - Italy and Russia have signed an agreement for the creation of the first Russian state center for musical instrument restoration. The partnership has been initiated during a ...