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  2. Balalaika - Wikipedia

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    There are balalaika orchestras which consist solely of different balalaikas; these ensembles typically play Classical music that has been arranged for balalaikas. The prima balalaika is the most common; the piccolo is rare. There have also been descant and tenor balalaikas, but these are considered obsolete. All have three-sided bodies; spruce ...

  3. List of English words of Turkic origin - Wikipedia

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    Albanian, German, Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian were also intermediary languages for the Turkic words to penetrate English, as well as containing numerous Turkic loanwords themselves (e.g. Serbo-Croatian contains around 5,000 Turkic loanwords, primarily from Turkish [1]).

  4. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Balalaika, piccolo 3 strings 3 courses. Standard: B 4 E 5 A 5. Old orchestral: E 4 A 4 E 5; Piccolo Russia Rare Balalaika, prima 3 strings 3 courses. Standard/common: E 4 E 4 A 4. Alternates: Folk: C 4 E 4 G 4; Russian guitar: G 3 B 3 D 4; Prima Russia This is the standard instrument of the balalaika family Balalaika, prima, 6-string 6 strings ...

  5. Tumbalalaika - Wikipedia

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    Tumbalalaika, shpil balalaika Tumbalalaika (also Shpil balalaika), freylekh zol zayn Meydl, meydl, kh'vil bay dir fregn, Vos ken vaksn, vaksn on regn? Vos ken brenen un nit oyfhern? Vos ken benken, veynen on trern? (chorus) Narisher bokher, vos darfstu fregn? A shteyn ken vaksn, vaksn on regn. Libe ken brenen un nit oyfhern.

  6. List of Black Lagoon characters - Wikipedia

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    Balalaika (バラライカ, Bararaika) is the boss of Hotel Moscow. Her real name is Sofiya Pavlovna Irinovskaya. She was brought up by her grandfather, the military head of the USSR. Before joining the mafia, Balalaika was a captain in the Soviet Army and a Vozdushno-Desantnye Vojska paratrooper who served in the Soviet–Afghan War.

  7. Domra - Wikipedia

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    Balalaika, Mandolin The domra (Cyrillic: до́мра, [ˈdɔmrɑ] ) is a long-necked Belarusian , Russian , and Ukrainian folk string instrument of the lute family with a round body and three or four metal strings.

  8. History of lute-family instruments - Wikipedia

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    Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...

  9. Vasily Andreyev - Wikipedia

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    Vasily Vasilievich Andreyev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Андре́ев; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1861 – 26 December 1918) [1] was a Russian musician responsible for the modern development of the balalaika and several other traditional Russian folk music instruments, and is considered the father of the academic folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe. [2]