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  GUSLI(Psaltery). Traditions. Contemporaneity. - Gusli for sale
As for this kantele, I settled on 4 drones.
This type of gusli is well-known in all countries of Baltic Region as the main ancient form of wooden gusli.
The probable technique of playing is: gusli should be put upright on the player's knees, a player plays notes with a right hand and damps needless strings with a left one passing it through the playing window.
www.gusli.narod.ru /eng/trade.html   (1125 words)

  
  GUSLI(Psaltery). Traditions. Contemporaneity. - Gusli for sale
Gusli with coupled strings are known in tradition of various countries in XIX-XX centuries.
This type of gusli is well-known in all countries of Baltic Region as the main ancient form of wooden gusli.
The probable technique of playing is: gusli should be put upright on the player's knees, a player plays notes with a right hand and damps needless strings with a left one passing it through the playing window.
gusli.narod.ru /eng/trade.html   (1125 words)

  
  Gusli - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In Ukraine, the gusli influenced the development of the bandura, which largely replaced it in the nineteenth century.
Shlemovidnye gusli (Шлемовидные гусли): the musician held this instrument on his knees, so that strings were horizontal, resonator body under them.
Krylovidnye gusli (Крыловидные гусли): this instrument was much smaller, had more resemblance with Scandinavian harps, was held much more like modern guitars (although strings were still muted by the left hand through a special opening in the instrument's body).
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gusli   (317 words)

  
 Gusla - LoveToKnow 1911
The modern Servian gusla is a kind of tanbur (see Pandura), consisting of a round, concave body covered with a parchment soundboard; there is but one horsehair string, and the peg for tuning it is inserted in oriental fashion in the back of the head.
Among the Russians, the gusli is an instrument of a different type, a kind of psaltery having five or more strings stretched across a flat, shallow sound-chest in the shape of a wing.
In the gusli the strings, of graduated length, are attached to little nails or pins at one end, and at the other they are wound over a rod having screw attachments for increasing and slackening the tension.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gusla   (279 words)

  
 A Gusli Page
The gusli is mentioned in the Russian chronicles.
The gusli became somewhat scarce at the turn of the last century, butthe instrumen t, its music and culture were preserved in time to preventits l oss.
The gusli is most often played upright, with the edge of the long end downon the knees; the left hand (over the tuning pins and bridge) damps the stringsnot in the chord/melody, while the right hand strums or plucks the strings.
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 Russian Traditional Musical Instruments
Gusli - is one of the oldest known Russian musical instruments.
The Greek historians Theofilact and Theophan were the first to mention the gusli: Under the war in the end of the 6th Century, the Greeks took Slavonic prisoners and found a musical instrument named the gusli.
The gusli was only used as accompaniment to the song and especially to the travelling scalds who used their songs to tell about the antiquity and to praise the princes and their relations.
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 Gusli - handmade Russian folk psaltery
Gusli is a Russian folk psaltery, a kind of a harp.
In Finland Gusli are called "Kantele" or "Kannel", in Estonia "Kannel", in Karelia "Kandele", in Latvia "Kokle" or "Kuokle" and in Lithuania "Kankles".
Original Gusli of the 13th-14th centuries could be seeng in the collection of the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture in Moscow.
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 The Gusli
Keyboard gusli has a diapason from A in the contra octave to A i the 3rd octave.
Usually, the notes are written in G- and F-clef on two notesystems that are combined with the accolade.
The main function of this instrument is to execute the arpeggiochords, that underline the sound of the orchestra.
balalajka.dk /english/gusli.html   (302 words)

  
 Èñêóññòâî èãðû íà ãóñëÿõ - Gusli is the instrument of the world…
Modern art of gusli cannot be considered without understanding, that it has been developmenting during ethical cleanliness of culture in Russia.
Children's twentystring gusli with new type of mechanics were made last year.
Lubov Zhuk is deeply convinced that playing on gusli which is the most elementary instrument in learning, will be conductor to spirituality and deep historical roots for future generations of our country.
www.gusli.ru /articles.php?lng=en&pg=290   (224 words)

  
 Èñêóññòâî èãðû íà ãóñëÿõ - Gusli in modern musical culture
In musical — educational process gusli with different quantity of strings are used.
The modern pedagogics and a technique of training on gusli puts priority on art representations, focused on their technologies of performance, is distinct from earlier works.
The tendency of universalisation, unifications of multistring instruments opens a field for interethnic dialogue where the way of gusli performing began some kind of a beacon for other national cultures.
www.gusli.ru /articles.php?lng=en&pg=291   (224 words)

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