balalaikas

Donaldson visited the sick and wounded prisoners and provided them with a gramophone and musical instruments (balalaikas and mandolins).

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Little Moscow was below street level, a plain restaurant, plastic tablecloths, tables tightly packed, conversation animated and accompanied by expansive gestures, music in the background reminiscent of balalaikas and folk dancers in tunics.

Venom Joan Brady 2010

Coney Island was also good for a quick, easy trip to the water - but I preferred Brighton Beach next door because the Russian folk on the boardwalk were so jolly, with their strolling and their balalaikas and their cafes serving vodka and blini in the open air.

The Bus to the Beach 2008

The station was playing music, and the strains of Russian balalaikas were unmistakable.

The U-2 spy plane fiasco Dobbs, Michael 2008

Coney Island was also good for a quick, easy trip to the water - but I preferred Brighton Beach next door because the Russian folk on the boardwalk were so jolly, with their strolling and their balalaikas and their cafes serving vodka and blini in the open air.

Dove's Eye View: 2008

They had some women singing, and they were dancing, and playing accordions and balalaikas.

2nd Lt. Jack Kaplan, USAAF 1944

And he did sing at the top of his delightful voice when the balalaikas swept out into a ringing and familiar song, and the two gipsy girls sang, too -- laughed and sang, holding the frosty goblets high in the sparkling light.

The Dark Star William Dodge Stevens 1899

Mead and qvass flowed in the very streets, and the castle trumpets could not be heard for the sound of troikas and balalaikas.

Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home 1872

Mead and qvass flowed in the very streets, and the castle trumpets could not be heard for the sound of troikas and balalaikas.

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Bayard Taylor 1851

The piece becomes a succession of precisely realized sounds: repeated-note ripples from the harps that seem to evoke Russian balalaikas; whooshing gestures from chimes; grippingly atonal chords that result from a slow pileup of notes in the strings and winds; fleeting volleys from the brasses, complete with gnashing slides.

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