Russian Guitar | Seven-string Guitar – semistrunk
May 6th, 2010 | Author: guitarman
The Russian guitar is a seven-string acoustic guitar that made it in Russia toward the closing of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century as an evolution of the kobza.. It is known in Russian as the semistrunnaya gitara or affectionately as the semistrunkatywhich interprets to “seven-string”.
These guitars are commonly tuned to an Open G chord as follows: DBGDBGD. An alternative, the so-called Gypsy tuning, is DBGDCGD. The latter was characteristic of the Ukrainian kobza in the preceding century.
The Russian adaptation of the seven-string guitar has been used by professionals because of its high flexibility. It has been traditionally played without a pick, using fingers for either strumming or picking.
A two-necked variant of the Russian guitar was also popular; these guitars typically had 11 or 12 strings-one neck with seven fretted strings, and another with four or five unfretted strings. There are also some scarce specimens that were built with an oval body.
The invention of the Russian guitar is assigned to Andrei Sychra, who also wrote the know-how for the instrument, as well as over one thousand compositions.
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