Balalaika compact three-string, improved finish, Festival-T Russia

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Festival-T compact three-stringed Balalaika, toning, Balalaiker ©
Balalaiker Festival is a popular model balalaika with a compact enclosure type"punt". This kind of balalaika until recently had the spread of only in environment village musicians and was made exclusively in makeshift options. The main differences of this model consist in compactness of the sizes, ease of the instrument and special flat-bottomed type of a body. Thanks to these qualities balalaika is convenient for outdoor activities, travel, as well as the initial development of music and activities with children.
New Balalaiker Festival developed in collaboration with the Museum of balalaika (Moscow) and Samara center of Russian traditional culture (Samara). Thanks to the common efforts managed to bring a wide audience convenient and effective type of balalaika.
The housing type"punt"is made of three stacked studs (birch) and is linked by the historic technology"mating in pen."Ballycarry painstakingly restored this technology, having a beautiful and reliable instrument. Birch neck with birch lining. The scale of the traditional 16-fret size 435 mm. peg line system zaleplena open. Frets are made of special brass. The soundboard is made of Russian resonant spruce. Back spruce. Characteristic wooden necktie on the heel of the neck. Maple filly. Balalaiker Festival features a signature string series BalalaikerSoundTraditional.
Number of strings: 3.
Body: 3 rivets, size of prima 3/4,"punt".
Menzura: 435mm.
Materials: birch.
Upper deck: resonance spruce.
Back: spruce.
Edging: beech.
Neck: oval, birch.
Fingerboard: birch.
Frets: 16, sintoms 2 mm.
Stand: maple.
Peg line mechanics: on the bar, open.
Metal balalaikersoundtraditional strings.
Color: light brown, tinted.
Finish: semi-Matt lacquer, joiner's oil.
Балалайки сирии фестиваль от БалалайкерЪ. Обзор от Дани Воронкова
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Balalaika is the most famous Russian folk musical instrument, is a word known to every foreigner. The distinctive triangular body, three strings and sonorous strumming sound of the balalaika are known all over the world.
In the modern balalaika family there are five instruments with different sound heights. Structure of all balalaika the same: three or four strings (sometimes six strings, that is, three twin), a shallow triangular body, the neck is of medium length. The sizes of the instruments vary greatly: the size of the body of the prima balalaika is about 580mm, and the double bass balalaika reaches 1700mm in length. Such a great tool it is impossible to keep on hand, so it would be easier to play standing up, resting attached to the corner of the case, the special endpin into the floor.
A characteristic technique of the game on the balalaika is"rattling", that is, a blow to all the strings at the same time. Also, a distinctive technical technique is the use of the thumb of the left hand to clamp the bass string. The balalaika prima, Secunda and Alto are played and fingers and using a plectrum when playing other types of people more likely to use a mediator.
Balalaika is an integral part of the orchestra of Russian folk musical instruments, and the balalaika prima is used as a solo instrument, for it is performed arrangements of classical works of both foreign and domestic composers, modern songs and compositions.
Over the past two hundred years, the balalaika has won people's love and respect, has become not only an external easily recognizable feature of Russian culture, but also a truly folk instrument.