The Russian Horn Orchestra & Pavel Drap - Bolero Maurice Ravel

BALALAYKA - Rus. Nar stringed plucked instrument. The earliest information about B. dates back to 1715. The body of a folk balalaika is wooden, usually triangular, glued from det. segments, sometimes oval or hemispherical. forms, hollowed. The neck is long with a slightly shovel-shaped backward head. The deck is thin, flat with one round resonator hole or several, located star-shaped. On a neck 5 vein frets imposing diatonic are imposed. scale. String 3; vein strings were used first, later metal ones.