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Encyclopedia Britannica



BALALAIKA

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 234 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BALALAIKA , a stringed
instrument
  said to have retained its
primitive
  form unchanged, very popular in
Russia
  among the peasants, more especially in
Ukraine
 . The
instrument
  has a triangular soundboard to which is glued a vaulted back, forming a
body
  having a triangular
base
 , enabling it to stand upright. To the
body
  is added a fretted
neck
  strung with two, three or four strings, generally so
tined
  as to produce a
minor
  chord when sounded together. The strings are generally plucked with the fingers, but the peasants obtain charming glissando " effects by sweeping the strings lightly one after the other with the fingers or side of the hand. The Balalaika is common to the Slav races, who use it to accompany their folk-songs and dances. It is also to be seen in the hands of
gipsies
  at rural festivities and fairs.


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