Domra (домра) is a long-necked Russianstring instrument with three or four steel strings and a round resonator. It is thought that it was brought to Russia with the Mongolian invasion in the 12th century. The domra was redesigned in 1896 by Vasily Vassilyevich Andreyev. No exact descriptions of the original instrument remain. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1904x1529, 360 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Domra ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1904x1529, 360 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Domra ... A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... The Mongol Invasion of Russia was an invasion of the medieval state of Kievan Rus by a large army of nomadic Mongols, starting in 1223. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ...
Today the domra is played with a plectrum, and is often used to play the lead melody in Russianbalalaika ensembles. Various guitar picks A plectrum (plural plectra or plectrums) is a device for plucking or strumming a stringed instrument. ... Balalaika The balalaika (Russian: балалаÌйка; IPA ) is a stringed instrument of Russian origin, with a characteristic triangular body and 3 strings (or sometimes 6, in pairs). ...
Tamara Volskaya is considered to be one of the leading contemporary performers on the domra. She is a Merited Artist of Russia, a Laureate of the USSR competition, and a Professor at the Mussorgsky Ural State Conservatory of Yekaterinburg, Russia. Tamara Volskaya is a performing musician whose principal instrument is the domra. ...
Examples of this are the replacement of the torban and fretted kobza with the seven-stringed guitar, the small fretted kobza with the mandolin, and later the four-stringed domra.
The four-string domra, although thought of as a Russian folk instrument, is not used in Russia itself where the three-string version is universally used and taught.
In Ukraine the mandolin was displaced by the four-string domra.
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