When did balalaikas first appear, who played them and, most importantly, still play them? Here's all you need to know about the balalaika. When did the balalaika first appear in Russia? Historians ...

A balalaika is a triangle-shaped string instrument with a fretted neck, hollow body and three strings. Two of them are tuned to the same note and the third is tuned a perfect fourth higher. "Children ...

The balalaikas were ringing out this week not back in the U.S.S.R., but in Bloomington. More than 100 players of the triangular, three-stringed Russian folk guitar and its sister instrument, the domra ...