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the triangular Russian guitar that turned a peasant's complaint into a national instrument.
means A Russian stringed instrument with a distinctive triangular body and usually three strings, plucked or strummed and played in a family of sizes from tiny to enormous.
from From Russian балалайка, recorded since the late 17th or early 18th century. Its deeper roots are murky and charmingly onomatopoeic — the name is often linked to dialect words like balákat' and balabólit', meaning to chatter or babble, as if the instrument were named for its quick, talkative strumming. So the word itself may have started as the sound of idle peasant chatter set to strings.
- three sides
- Triangular body with just three strings, two tuned identically
- size range
- Comes in six sizes, from piccolo to contrabass
- soviet boost
- Lenin's regime promoted it into folk orchestras
- name origin
- Possibly from 'balakat,' to chatter or joke around
- strumming style
- Played mostly with fast index-finger rasguedo strokes