Gudok
Gudok is a bow-drawn bowl-neck lute made in Russia with a pear-shaped or almond-shaped body made from a piece of wood. The gudok has three strings , of which the highest tuned leads the melody, while the two lower strings sound like drone strings. They are both tuned a fifth lower.
A string instrument corresponding to today's gudok was found near Novgorod on Lake Ilmen together with box zithers of the wing-shaped husle type and dated to the 12th century. The gudok is related to the Byzantine lira , which was first depicted in the 10th century. Other string sounds derived from this include the Bulgarian gadulka and the guslice played in Montenegro .
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- Gudok ( memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on slovari.yandex.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Morgenstern: Russia. A. II. 2. c. In: MGG Online