> music they play on it may be south american but the tuning
> (gg-cc-eE-aa-ee) and the basic design (designs, actually ... including
> a charango with a triangular shaped body ... does that make it a
> balalaika?)
Triangular balalaika is a fairly late invention (late 18th cent.), and in
all likelihood a South American import, spread by seafaring Incan Jews (long
eared red-haired people of Easter (Passover) Island myth) on rafts, then
across Siberia, in order to make Russians look and sound cheesy.
RT
