Any nation can envy the variety of Russian folk creation. Since ancient times the Russian state was famous for talented people. The hundreds of volumes of collections of national folk-lore - verses, stories, poetry, fairy-tales, fables and etc serve as evidence of it. Most of all Russian people are famous for their passion to music and songs. In Russian history, both in happyness and sorrow songs and music infused people hearts with in gladness and hope, helped in sad situations, inspired on exploits. The Russian people through ages were able to carry the unique music and songs which are celebrated nowadays the whole world. The great attention is paid to the difference of folk musical instruments. Most popular of them are: bayan, accordion, gusli, domra, balalaika. The last one is called a soul of the Russian folk song. We can`t imagine any Russian folk holiday without balalaika. In all musical collectives which professionally or amateur play and sing Russian national songs, an obligatory musical instrument is a balalaika. Learning to play balalaika is pretty simply, but pleasure and fun which it can provide to listeners will go down in memory for many years. Present-day balalaikas are made both by a factory way and by hand (so-called hand-made). This musical instrument consists of the next parts: at first, it has a sounding board is a wooden corps of balalaika, it`s framework. A timbre and sounding of music depends on its quality. A corps may be made of a beech, hornbeam, alder, mahogany. That species of wood similarly are joined at making of balalaikas, especially if balalaika is made by hand. A vulture is a handle of balalaika, it must be smooth and comfortable. Balalaikas commonly are three-stringed and have three-cornered form, but can be different sizes. Balalaikas are used also as gifts. What can be better as an interesting gift for tourists, than handwork balalaika of upscale species of wood and with painting of beautiful folk drawing? Today it is possible to know more details about Russian traditional musical instruments, buy them, make on an order, repair. We can do this on the Internet-site of famous masters of folk culture. Due to work of such masters we could save and increase values of the Russian folk culture which is really unique. Our children from early age need to learn to love folk creation, music, in fact ability to feel spirituality of our people, will help us to educate to be nationally-conscious, loving the people and our state, workings in blessing nations.
