BALALAIKA  , a stringed See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument said to have retained its See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form unchanged, very popular in See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia among the peasants, more especially in See also:

• UKRAINE (" frontier ")

Ukraine . The instrument has a triangular soundboard to which is glued a vaulted back, forming a See also:

• BODY

body having a triangular See also:

• BASE

base, enabling it to stand upright . To the body is added a fretted See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck strung with two, three or four strings, generally so See also:

• TINED

tined as to produce a See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor chord when sounded together . The strings are generally plucked with the fingers, but the peasants obtain charming glissando " effects by sweeping the strings lightly one after the other with the fingers or See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand . The Balalaika is See also:

• COMMON

common to the Slav races, who use it to accompany their folk-songs and dances . It is also to be seen in the hands of See also:

• GIPSIES, or GYPSIES

gipsies at rural festivities and fairs .