balalaika

Russian stringed musical instrument
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balalaika

Summary

balalaika is a type of musical instrument[1]. balalaika draws 632 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #44 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • balalaika's image is recorded as Balalajka, druga polovina 20. veka.jpg[3].
  • balalaika's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[4].
  • balalaika's GND ID is recorded as 4143930-2[5].
  • balalaika's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85011113[6].
  • balalaika's subclass of is recorded as necked bowl lute[7].
  • balalaika's subclass of is recorded as Slavic musical instrument[8].
  • balalaika's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00869366[9].
  • balalaika's Commons category is recorded as Balalaika[10].
  • balalaika's country of origin is recorded as Russia[11].
  • balalaika's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01gfp[12].
  • balalaika's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Balalaika[13].
  • balalaika's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300042011[14].
  • balalaika's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0082778[15].
  • balalaika's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as f6b51493-c7bd-41be-901b-245380ec96ce[16].
  • balalaika's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[17].
  • balalaika's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[18].
  • balalaika's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • balalaika's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • balalaika's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21].
  • balalaika's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • balalaika's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[23].
  • balalaika's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/balalaika[24].
  • balalaika's used by is recorded as balalaikist[25].
  • balalaika's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.321[26].
  • balalaika's YSO ID is recorded as 1509[27].

Why It Matters

balalaika draws 632 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #44 of 399).[2] balalaika has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] balalaika is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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