Gudok is an ancient Russian string musical instrument, which was played with a bow. A Gudok usually had 3 strings: 2 of them were tuned in unison, whereas the 3rd was tuned one fifth higher. All 3 strings were placed in the same plane, so a bow could make them all sound simultaneously (unlike a violin, where only 2 strings can be reached at any moment). Sometimes Gudok also had several (up to 8) sympathetic strings under the upper sounding board. These made gudok's sound warm and rich. The nearest relative of gudok is Bulgarian gadulka. Russian national musical instrument gudok File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Russian national musical instrument gudok File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A string instrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A cello bow In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. ... For other uses, see Unison (disambiguation). ... Fifth may refer to: One fifth, a quintile, or 20% of a certain amount The fifth in a series, or four after the first In the United States, the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution especially as in the expression Taking the Fifth. Fifth (Stargate), a robotic character in... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... Sympathetic strings are strings on musical instruments which begin resonating, not due to any external influence such as picking or bowing, but due to another note (or frequency). ... The sounding board is the largest part of a string musical instruments body. ... Gadulka Tuning The Gadulka (Bulgarian: Гъдулка) is a folk Bulgarian string musical instrument played with a bow. ...

When playing a Gudok an artist held it on his lap like a cello or viola da gamba. It was also possible to play gudok while standing and even dancing, which made it popular among skomorokhs. Initially (in 12th century, and probably before) gudok was played using harmonics only, without pressing strings to instrument's neck. Later (in 14th century and after) some modifications of gudok had a real neck for pressing strings. This modification didn't look very useful, however, since the shape of this instrument was rather specific. A real fingerboard was an obvious borrowing from fiddles. The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ... Various Viola da gamba The viol or viola da gamba family of musical instruments is related to the vihuela, rebec, etc. ... 18th-century lubok representing Russian skomorokhs. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... In acoustics and telecommunication, the harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency. ... This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ... Fretted guitar fingerboard. ... The term fiddle refers to a violin when used in folk music. ...

Gudoks as a folk instrument entirely ceased away for several centuries already. Nobody except Russian folk-bands really plays them. Moreover, all the present instruments are only reconstructions, based on several parts of gudoks that were found in Novgorod excavations. Velikiy Novgorod (Russian: ) is the foremost historic city of North-Western Russia, situated on the M10(E95) federal highway connecting Moscow and St. ...

There were several attempts to revive Gudoks in music. In Borodin's opera Prince Igor there's a 'Gudok Players Song', which is an author's reconstruction of how Gudok may have sounded. But in practice it's performed with modern violins and violas, of course. Borodin is a blogger pseudonym and the last name of several Russian people: Borodin, a Political Philosophy Blogger. ... Prince Igor (Russian: Knâz Igor) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Alexander Borodin. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is a string instrument played with a bow. ...

See also

• Gadulka
• Gusle
• Rebab
• Kamancheh
• Kemenche
• The lyra of Crete

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