It buzzes with life every night, and features a band with a phenomenal balalaika player that has practically everyone on their feet cheering. |
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The book is a rare collector's edition as it includes an original drawing of Winnie the Pooh in traditional Russian costume playing a balalaika. |
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The balalaika has a flat back, slightly arched belly, narrow neck bearing 4 moveable frets and 3 strings. |
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Vasiliy Vasilievich Andreev came from a rich family, but once in the countryside, he heard the sounds of a balalaika. |
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Daniil stroked his balalaika and Eddy sang, the way they always had. |
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Now he straightened his embroidered jerkin and fluffed his lace cuffs with a fastidious air, and the strings of the balalaika on his back sang gently as he shrugged. |
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We figure that the red instrument on the right is a balalaika. |
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By the age of 4, he was able to play the balalaika, accordion, and guitar, and by 8, the oboe as well as the trombone and other brass instruments. |
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The dombra: this forerunner of the balalaika is a lute-like instrument with round body, long neck and 3 metal strings. |
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The balalaika is characterized by a triangular body that is made in 6 different sizes. |
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The balalaika is a musical instrument invented some 350 years ago in Russia. |
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Brandark's finery had astounded everyone, and some of those who'd prudently withdrawn from his vicinity had been lured back when he uncased his balalaika and began strumming. |
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At the age of 7, he entered a school with a musical tendency where he spent two years learning the art of playing the balalaika. |
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Maybe the balalaika wouldnt exist today if it wasnt for one man: Vasiliy Vasilievich Andreev who revived this instrument. |
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Since its fabrication was so easy, the balalaika started to gain popularity, especially amongst the people living in the countryside. |
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One is a real contrabass balalaika, I brought it from Russia. |
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The instrument was used in folk music but was also employed in large balalaika orchestras in the 20th century. |
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Most people thought that the balalaika was only a toy which the lower uneducated class used to emit sounds. |
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Finally, Andreev succeeded in convincing an instrument maker to make him a more professional balalaika for which he drew the plans himself. |
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But the hands also appear, at the beginning, playing instruments: accordion, balalaika, drums. |
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It is as if the frenchified Russian still heard in his mind the cheerful rhythms of a balalaika orchestra. |
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Kristin Lund. Krissie sounded closer to home and just as beautiful. Krissie Lund. It rolled off the tongue like a balalaika riff. |
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Typical ethnic Russian musical instruments are gusli, balalaika, zhaleika, and garmoshka. |
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No balalaika, no bouzouki, no jazz, no reggae either. |
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The balalaika is made in six sizes, from piccolo to double bass, and has a flat back and a triangular table, or belly, that tapers to the fretted neck. |
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But no instrument maker would accept his invitation to make his balalaika. |
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The instrument maker agreed to make the balalaika, but with conditions. |
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In the repertoire of a modern balalaika player there are not only Russian folk songs, but also fugues and concertos, jazz and classical music, old and new. |
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He asked Andreev not to tell anyone that he was manufacturing a balalaika. |
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Unluckily, during the 19th century, the balalaika started to lose its popularity, leaving its place to the seven-stringed guitar and the accordion. |
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To break this stereotype, Andreev wanted to make himself a new balalaika, because the one he has recieved from the shepherds didnt satisfy him anymore. |
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But I think not, because these four Russians, an accordionist and three balalaika players were so virtuosic and musicianly that I am sure he would have been writing for them. |
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