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balalaika::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | chordophone |
Examples of balalaika
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It was the film that made Julie Christie a star and put the balalaika on the map.
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The welcome was so warm that about the only thing missing was balalaika music.
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Balalaika, a three-stringed, triangular sound-board, played with the fingers.
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Unfortunately, they are those of the balalaika player, a sodden, crude-minded lowlife.
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The music became popular and soon Andreyev had organized a club of balalaika players.
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Typical ethnic Russian musical instruments are gusli, balalaika, zhaleika and garmoshka.
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Balalaika arrives with a full complement of soldiers, and forces the two to stop fighting.
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Alexey Arhipovsky is the modern-day Russian Paganini of the balalaika, but with a Pat Metheny approach.
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Balalaika spurns Chang's attempts to foster cooperation, and insists that Hotel Moscow will find and eliminate the assassins.
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- A stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings
- Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.
- Balalaika is a musical play in 3 acts with book and lyrics by Eric Maschwitz, music by George Posford and Bernard Grun. It opened in London at the Adelphi Theatre on December 22, 1936, starring Muriel Angelus, Roger Treville, Clifford Mollison and Betty Warren, and ran for 569 performances.
- A Russian musical instrument, similar to a guitar, with a triangular body
- Lute-type; triangle shape; national instrument of Russia. Really a family of instruments, including Piccolo, Prima, Secunda, Alto, Bass and Contra-bass.
- A Russian instrument that sounds like a Mandolin. It looks like a triangular Guitar but has only three strings stretched across a long neck.
