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How did the balalaika appear?

Among Russian folk stringed instruments there is one with an unusual fate - this is domra, which was widespread in Russia in the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries, and then suddenly ... completely disappeared.

Domra is similar to a balalaika, it is also three-stringed, only its body is not triangular, but semicircular. But just like the balalaika, the body of the domra is made of separate planks. Domras were of different sizes: there were "domrishko", "domra" and "big bass domra".

Once upon a time in Russia there were a lot of domrachi - masters of playing the domra, especially among buffoons. But the church called a cheerful game on any folk musical instruments "demonic games." By decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in 1648, it was announced that "buffoons with domras and bagpipes ... should not be called into the house, they would not listen to any demonic games ... and masks (that is, various carnival masks) should not be put on themselves imposed ... And where will domras appear ... and all sorts of buzzing demonic vessels, take them out (that is, take them away) and, having broken them ... burn them. How could anyone disobey such a formidable order of the king? Therefore, domra has practically disappeared. But you can't forbid people's craving for music! Domra disappeared, but the balalaika appeared!

Already at the end of the XNUMXth century, an instrument very reminiscent of domra appeared, but only of a triangular shape. Maybe the triangular balalaika was invented so that it would not look like a domra? So that by playing the balalaika the king's decree is not violated? After all, the decree did not say anything about the balalaika!

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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