Gusli
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The gusli or husla is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board. Its roots lie in Veliky Novgorod
"Gusli musicians" by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1899
Boyan playing a gusli, by Nicholas Roerich
Painting of a feast attended by Vladimir the Great and certain of the bogatyri at which a gusli is being played
Man playing a lyre-shaped gusli (Russian: Лирообразные гусли) or rotte (lyre).
Bandura
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A bandura is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza. Early instruments had 5 to 12 strings and r
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…instrument is the tsymbaly, a hammered dulcimer. In Ukraine, it is thought that the gusli may have influenced the development of the multi-stringed bandura, which largely replaced it in the nineteenth century. Olga Glazova…
Chernihiv style bandura
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The folkloric hero Cossack Mamay playing a bandura (early 19th century), National Art Museum of Ukraine
Kharkiv style bandurist Hryhory Bazhul