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balalaika

Russian stringed musical instrument
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Summary

balalaika is a type of musical instrument[1]. balalaika draws 7,273 Wikipedia views per month (type of musical instrument category, ranking #44 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: necked bowl lute[3], Slavic musical instrument[4]
  • Commons category: Balalaika[5]
  • Country of origin: Russia[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Balalaika[7]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[8], Riemann's Music Dictionary[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[14]
  • Used by: balalaikist[15]
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.321[16]

Why It Matters

balalaika has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] balalaika is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Russia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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