Domra

[Eugene]

Mentioning Tamara, this old chestnut still gets me worked up:

[s11141827]

The 4 string Domra Prima from Ukraine is essentially a 4 string Acoustic Mandolin w/ a Circular Body used in Balalaika Ensembles. It's not related (nor came from) the Dombra because they're tuned & shaped differently.

[TuckerTheMandolinist]

The 4 string Domra Prima from Ukraine is essentially a 4 string Acoustic Mandolin w/ a Circular Body used in Balalaika Ensembles. It's not related (nor came from) the Dombra because they're tuned & shaped differently.

Could you tune a Domra like a mandolin? I've used a balalaika in some of the bluegrass songs I've made, but maybe a GDAE Domra is more palatable.

[Jim Garber]

This is a 9 plus year old thread. Oscar, no one mentioned anything about a Dombra. Tucker, read the old posts. 4-string domras are usually tuned GDAE.

[Denko]

This is a 9 plus year old thread. Oscar, no one mentioned anything about a Dombra.

The name, too hints at the lineage:

domra - dombra - dambura - tambura all linguistically related, showing an Greek/Anatolian/Central Asian ancestry.

Read the old post #9 Jim - dombra is definitely mentioned. You seem to dislike Oscar reviving old threads. What benefit is it to point that out? I revive posts occasionally myself. If you don't like the practice why not just ignore the post? It seemed of value to Tucker.

[Denko]

The 4 string Domra Prima from Ukraine is essentially a 4 string Acoustic Mandolin w/ a Circular Body used in Balalaika Ensembles. It's not related (nor came from) the Dombra because they're tuned & shaped differently.

Oscar, I think David was saying they are related linguistically - not physically. The 3 string Domra (as we know it) came to be in 19th Century Russia if I remember correctly. The Dombra in Central Asia in the Middle Ages.

"In 1896, a student of Vasily Vasilievich Andreyev found a broken instrument in a stable in rural Russia. It was thought that this instrument may have been an example of a domra, although at that time no illustrations or examples of the traditional domra were known to exist (the traditional domra was only known through numerous mentions in folklore, though examples existed of the dombra, a related Turkic instrument). A three-stringed version of this instrument was later redesigned in 1896, patented, and introduced into the orchestra of Russian folk instruments." "Государственный академический русский оркестр им. В. В. Андреева" [State Academic Russian Orchestra. V. V. Andreeva]. Andreyev Orchestra. Russia.

[Simon DS]

Read the old post #9 Jim - dombra is definitely mentioned. You seem to dislike Oscar reviving old threads. What benefit is it to point that out? I revive posts occasionally myself. If you don't like the practice why not just ignore the post? It seemed of value to Tucker.

I love to hear about foreign instruments and their history.

The flag make have gone up with Oscar’s ID thumbnail which makes a statement about Covid vaccines. It’s a contentious subject. And in fact most types of politics are avoided on the forum, it’s one of the reasons we all seem to get along reasonably well.

Other contentious subjects include sex and violence, which of course includes war. Remembering that some people have a very low tolerance for one compared to the other. Yes, we’re all very different.

So back to

[Jairo Ramos]

As far as I know, there is no official rule on the forum that prohibits reviving old posts...as you say Denko, if you are not interested, ignore it...for me it has been interesting to know that there is a Domra that is tuned like the mandolin...I didn't know...I really like music playing on domra...I wish I had one...

[TuckerTheMandolinist]

This is a 9 plus year old thread. Oscar, no one mentioned anything about a Dombra. Tucker, read the old posts. 4-string domras are usually tuned GDAE.

1, Nobody mentioned anything about not being able to mention a dombra. 2, There is no further information about a Domra on this thread, so I apologize for not knowing how a foreign instrument that I have never heard of is tuned.

[Denko]

Tucker - I don't believe you have anything to apologize for. (I think you were being sarcastic.) If you go to page one, the 1st and 3rd posts do mention the GDAE tuning. That being said, it might have been more polite to point that out to you like:

Hey Tucker welcome to the forum. The 4-string Ukrainian Domra is typically tuned GDAE. This was mentioned on page one of this thread.

Again, welcome and best of luck. Саша

[TuckerTheMandolinist]

Tucker - I don't believe you have anything to apologize for. (I think you were being sarcastic.) If you go to page one, the 1st and 3rd posts do mention the GDAE tuning. That being said, it might have been more polite to point that out to you like:

Hey Tucker welcome to the forum. The 4-string Ukrainian Domra is typically tuned GDAE. This was mentioned on page one of this thread.

Again, welcome and best of luck. Саша

Thank you. I didn't realize there was more than one page.