Literature and the Arts

What is a balalaika?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/balalaika-219383.html" >What is a balalaika?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

... balalaika Russian stringed musical instrument with a triangular body and a long fretted neck fretted instrument.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about balalaika . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: Are balalaika an instrument? What type of instrument is a balalaika? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Folk orchestra comes from Russia with balalaikas
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...reached for our hankies when the balalaikas started strumming "Lara...folk dancers when we hear balalaika music at Chicago's lively...restaurants. A whole stage full of balalaika players - 82 to be exact...The Moscow-based Osipov Balalaika Orchestra is celebrating its...
THE BALALAIKA, UPDATED
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post The balalaika has come a long way, baby. Far from...Kennedy Center Concert Hall, the Osipov Balalaika Orchestra will team the mandolinlike...McCullough, president of the 500-member Balalaika and Dorma Association of America. Through...
Total Balalaika Show.(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Video Business Total Balalaika Show Color, NR (nothing offensive), 55 min., DVD only $29.95...They made a little noise stateside, popping up mostly on MTV. Total Balalaika Show is a live concert film capturing the Cowboys in Helsinki's Senate...
An evening of Russian folk music.(Metropolitan)(Life)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ...music. This weekend, The Washington Balalaika Society, a 45-member orchestra, presents...principle conductor. The Washington Balalaika Society Orchestra was founded in 1988...attended a concert sponsored by the Balalaika and Domra Society of America. "Our...
CELEBRATING RUSSIAN FOLK MUSIC.(DAYBREAK)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) ...convention of the BDAA, or Balalaika and Domra Association of America...and the triangle-shaped balalaika form the core of the Russian...soprano-voiced "prima" balalaikas and domras, just a tad smaller...virtuoso Nadezhda Burdykina and balalaika pro Igor Senin, a husband...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.