The domra is a lengthy, neck-like, round-bodied, lute-family ethnic string instrument popular in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. It has three or four metal strings. The Admonitions of Metropolitan Daniel contains the earliest recorded mention of domra (1530). The gusli was replaced by this musical instrument during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In historical records from this time, domra is frequently mentioned. Additionally, there are depictions of performers playing necked plucked-string instruments from middle ages with Russian illuminated manuscripts of the Psalter. Some of these miniatures have the obvious description as — Depiction of Domras. According to those pictures, there are two different varieties of late medieval Russian domras: lute-shaped instruments with five to six strings, a large body, and an angled back pegbox, and tanbur-shaped instruments with three to four strings, a tiny body, and a straight back pegbox. The domra rapidly fell out of use and was replaced by the balalaika, which was much simpler to produce and play, after the orthodox Tsar Alexis of Russia issued a decree directing the repression of Russian folk musicians and the destruction of their instruments (1648). A damaged instrument was discovered in a stable in a remote part of Russia in 1896 by a student named Vasily Vasilievich Andreyev. Even though no pictures or specimens of the traditional domra were known to exist at the time, it was believed that this instrument may have been one (the classical domra was only known through many mentions in folklore, though similar prototype existed of the dombra, a related Turkic instrument). Later, in 1896, a three-stringed variation of this instrument was developed, patented, and added to the collection of Russian folk instruments. [Information and Image Credit : Domra, Wikipedia] [Image : Domra, String Instrument] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property)] [Original Source Image URL : https://bit.ly/3SJQks2 ]
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