Contrabass Balalaika

[DJ Bebop]

Would totally dig one but I'm a banjo player now.

 

[BarfanyShart]

I remember watching this Russian soap opera with my mother in law when I was visiting the family overseas. Part of the plot happened in a music school, but it's a cheap soap opera so they are using the same big room to film many of the indoor locations. To indicate a scene was happening at the music school, there we would be a double bass and a contra balalaika leaned against the wall behind the actors. Always made me smile.

 

[ahbradot]

Is it considered a J or a P bass?

 

[mellowgerman]

I know there are other recordings but Jack Casady plays his bass balalaika on these two:
a live Hot Tuna radio performance from 1971

and this 1971 album by James and the Good Brothers

 

[blowinblue]

It ain't rock and roll, but I like it. This orchestra just doesn't have a balalaika, it has nearly enough balalaikas to fill a vintage VW bus. Recorded in the Soviet Union in June 1962. Recommended, if you can find a copy.

M. M.

 

[seedokebass]

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