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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian fairy tale characters play music on gusli and even defeat enemies with its help. How? By making them dance! The name gusli comes from the words “hum” and “buzz.” The mild voice of a gusli ...

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 ...

Back in February, Vlad Kreimer of Soma Laboratory announced the creation of a Dvina prototype, the first electro-acoustic instrument from the Russian synth maker. Now the slightly-tweaked production ...

Experience the sounds of Russia in Tarentum on Sunday. The Academy Chamber Ensemble will present “Russian Holiday” at Central Presbyterian Church at 4 p.m. The program will feature one of Joseph Haydn ...