![]() ![]() ![]() The surface of the fingerboard may be flat or curved slightly ("radiused"), although the radius of a curve on the Russian guitar is usually somewhat less than that of an equivalent western 6-string guitar. Fret spacing almost always follows the western twelve tone equal temperament (12-tet) system. The fingerboard is made of hardwood (ebony or rosewood are common), fitted with metal frets of brass or steel. The neck joint or heel is the point at which the neck is attached to the body of the guitar. The wood used to make the fretboard usually differs from the wood in the rest of the neck. Headstock, fingerboard (fretboard), and truss rod (if present), all attached to a long wooden extension which collectively constitutes the neck. The nut is a small strip traditionally of bone, but plastic, brass, and other materials are also sometimes seen. The tuner layout is usually in one of two forms: "4+3", with four tuners on the bass-string side of the head and three on the treble string side or "3+1+3", with three tuners on each side of the headstock and one in the middle. Modern instruments are fitted with machine head tuners, though older instruments (particularly from the 19th century) have friction pegs. The head or "headstock" is located at the end of the guitar neck farthest from the body. There are also some rare specimens that were built with an oval body. The gypsy model is steel strung, and resembles the western 6-string steel-string acoustic guitar, although more size and shape variations are found among gypsy guitars.Ī two-necked version of the Russian guitar was also once popular these guitars usually had 11 or 12 strings-one neck with seven fretted strings, and another with four or five unfretted strings. The classical model closely resembles the western 6-string classical guitar, and has nylon or gut strings. There are two basic types of Russian guitar: the "classical" model and the "gypsy" model. Woods used and internal bracing layouts are also similar. The same basic components are present: headstock nut tuners neck fingerboard frets inlays truss rod (in modern instruments) heel body bridge & bridge saddle soundboard (top) sound hole and rosette back sides strings. The Russian Guitar by Ivan KrasnoshchekovĬonstruction of the Russian is very similar to that of the western 6-string guitar except for the additional string. The Russian version of the seven-string guitar has been used by professionals because of its great flexibility, but has also been popular with amateurs for accompaniment (especially Russian bards) due to the relative simplicity of some basic chords and the ease of playing alternating bass lines. Petersburg, on December 15 1798, written by Ignaz Held (1766–1816). ![]() The first known written instruction for 7-string guitar was published in St. Some of these were published yet again in the Soviet Union in 1926. He left over a thousand compositions, seventy-five of which were republished in the 1840s by Stellovsky, and then again in the 1880s by Gutheil. It is true that Sychra was very influential in creating the school of Russian guitar playing. In classical literature, the lowest string (D) occasionally is tuned down to the C.Īlthough in a number of sources the invention of the Russian guitar is attributed to Andrei Sychra (1773–1850), there are strong reasons to believe that the instrument was already in use when Sychra began his career. These guitars are most commonly tuned to an open G chord as follows: D 2 G 2 B 2 D 3 G 3 B 3 D 4. It is known in Russian as the semistrunnaya gitara ( семиструнная гитара), or affectionately as the semistrunka ( семиструнка), which translates to "seven-stringer". The Russian guitar (sometimes referred to as a "Gypsy guitar") is an acoustic seven-string guitar that was developed in Russia toward the end of the 18th century: it shares most of its organological features with the Spanish guitar, although some historians insist on English guitar descent. ![]()
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