The balalaika (Russian: балалa ' йка) is a stringed instrument of Russian origin and is associated eneral the lute family. Its case is triangular, almost flat, with a small hole resonance in the upper corner of the lid. Attached to the box, is a long narrow neck, and has three strings that can be metallic or animal gut. The strings are usually pressed with your fingers and sometimes you can use a plectrum of skin to touch the metal strings. Formerly, the dishes were mobile, like other instruments such as the tambura or saz, and were made from animal gut.
can distinguish six kinds of sizes (piccolo, prima, second alto, bass and bass, respectively, from lowest to highest), and seems to have originated around the eighteenth century from the domra or dombra of Central Asia Siberia, much like the balalaika. Two of the balalaika strings are tuned in unison and the third to a quarter distance, such as the balalaika more importantly, the soprano or premium, is refined in MI4, MI4 and LA4. Historically
play the balalaika in Russia has been banned on several occasions, because, first, to their use by skomorokhi (clowns), which were highly irritating to the Church and State, and, secondly, to instruments music not allowed in Russian Orthodox liturgy.
Interestingly, a popular belief is that the three sides and strings of the balalaika represent the Holy Trinity. However, according to the writer and historian Nikolai Gogol, in his unfinished novel "Dead Souls", says a more likely reason for the triangular shape of the balalaika is that it was created by peasants from a gourd, which adopts the cracking peculiar form of this instrument. Another explanation may be related to the fact that prior to Czar Peter the Great, the instruments were not allowed in Russia, and when Peter finally allowed them, only the boat builders knew how to work with wood. Hence it is often claimed that the shape of the balalaika partly resembles the prow of a boat, if held horizontally.
late nineteenth century, a Russian nobleman, Vassily Andreyev Vassilievich, undertook a project to standardize the balalaika for use in the orchestra. Andreyev, and Nalimov furniture manufacturer, developed the multiple balalaika sizes that exist today. This noble adapted many songs and popular melodies Traditional Russian orchestra and also composed many works themselves. Aleksei
playing the balalaika Arkhipovsky
guitar and balalaika duo
Russian Folklore balalaikas
Russian Folklore and domras balalaikas
can distinguish six kinds of sizes (piccolo, prima, second alto, bass and bass, respectively, from lowest to highest), and seems to have originated around the eighteenth century from the domra or dombra of Central Asia Siberia, much like the balalaika. Two of the balalaika strings are tuned in unison and the third to a quarter distance, such as the balalaika more importantly, the soprano or premium, is refined in MI4, MI4 and LA4. Historically
play the balalaika in Russia has been banned on several occasions, because, first, to their use by skomorokhi (clowns), which were highly irritating to the Church and State, and, secondly, to instruments music not allowed in Russian Orthodox liturgy.
Interestingly, a popular belief is that the three sides and strings of the balalaika represent the Holy Trinity. However, according to the writer and historian Nikolai Gogol, in his unfinished novel "Dead Souls", says a more likely reason for the triangular shape of the balalaika is that it was created by peasants from a gourd, which adopts the cracking peculiar form of this instrument. Another explanation may be related to the fact that prior to Czar Peter the Great, the instruments were not allowed in Russia, and when Peter finally allowed them, only the boat builders knew how to work with wood. Hence it is often claimed that the shape of the balalaika partly resembles the prow of a boat, if held horizontally.
late nineteenth century, a Russian nobleman, Vassily Andreyev Vassilievich, undertook a project to standardize the balalaika for use in the orchestra. Andreyev, and Nalimov furniture manufacturer, developed the multiple balalaika sizes that exist today. This noble adapted many songs and popular melodies Traditional Russian orchestra and also composed many works themselves. Aleksei
playing the balalaika Arkhipovsky
guitar and balalaika duo
Russian Folklore balalaikas
Russian Folklore and domras balalaikas
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