Даже не знаю, в чем именно тут дело, в звуках самой семиструнки, в ее переливах и переборах, в русском романсе или в мастерстве музыканта, а может быть всё это вместе, но слушаешь и оторваться не можешь. 😍💕 Потрясающе. 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
Я б скорее сказал, "начали вспоминать" -- это видео с фестиваля, кот. мы проводим в Айове с 2006го года. Это 2007, т.е., с этого исполнения прошло ещё 10 фестивалей (в 2013 фестиваля не было), и собирается 11ый. Семиструнку не надо оплакивать, натягивайте струны и -- вперёд!
I love it! I really want to get one (7 string). There is one for sale in Boise, ID for $200, bolt on neck, factory built in Russia, but, I'm poor! ... I have a balalaika of similar vintage, and it is one of my favorite friends ... I got it for $65 off ebay, and it doesn't owe me a cent. Great wood for the top and back, sounds so beautiful. I'm good at set-up/fret dressing/etc, so as long as the wood/bracing is nice, I can handle the rest of it. I love Russian folk music! (Violin mostly)
So you would need to change string gauges a little to make a common American seven string guitar work right in this tuning? In America sevens are just the standard EADGBE with a low A or B on top. So that has to be a heavier string. In America the seven was "reinvented" by George Van Eps in 1940 or so but the first production model was by Gretsch in the fifties, a hollowbody jazz box. Jazz players had custom ones made here and there but it became big with hard rock players when Steve Vai had Ibanez make a seven string and it exploded. Sevens are common now but usually in versions made to appeal to hard rock and metal players. Of course we see ads for Doff guitars made in Russia, I have been wanting to buy one but have not so far. They seem nice for the low price.
I'd heard some really horrible stuff on - presumably - cheap Russian guitars made in the days of the soviets, but once you get used to the peculiar pitch/timbre of the instrument, this is great music..! Very different colors from the six string classical guitar.
@Timofeyev63 I'm not sure, since I don't play this instrument, but if it was open tuning, shouldn't it be b-flat, not b, so it would be a chord? It sounds like he was playing in g minor ...
@bennyblanko3 That's what one would think -- if you have a minor-chord tuning, all you need to do is to put one finger to make it major, right? But the Russian guitar is always tuned to the pitches of a G-major chord, and yet plays in all keys. That's what we like about it -- every key sounds and feels a little different.
The composer is Sergei Orekhov (1935-98), a true master of the Russian 7-string guitar. This is a theme with variations entitled "Chrysantemum Wilted in My Garden." If you want more details, contact me via my site russian-guitar.com
Just out of curiosity is this just a regular 7 string classical guitar that I can find online and play with the tuning? Also to start off what would be some good keys to start with and does it this use a more eastern theory?
I am a pianist and for the first time ever in my life I am about to pick up and teach myself the guitar. I today just saw an advert for a Russian 7 string guitar and now I am curious. What is the main difference between a 7 string and a 6 string apart from the obvious, of course? Which is better for strumming as an accompaniment to folk / bardic songs? Any light you can shed would be of great help!
The Russian guitar tuning is open G but they use a different order than usually used on six string. It is exactly the same as was often used on 7 string lap steels (or 'Dobro's, ie the resonator guitar played overhand steel style) in the 50s in America. Open G is famous for being common for slide guitar by the old delta blues players and by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Keith just takes the sixth string off entirely. Leo Kottke and John Fahey used it a lot too. Open tunings limit you as to what keys you can play in, but that is why there are so many different ones.
@@wamgoc3637 , Russian tuning doesnt limit you to the only one key, as it has that bass b string that provides essential chord shapes and makes the open g concept complete.
