Domra small, 4-string, DPM4. Solid of maple, resonant cedar. Russia. Doff.

Description

Domra small, 4-string, DPM. Solid of maple, resonant cedar. Russia. Doff.
Body: solid jet maple, rosewood, 7 rivets.
Upper deck: resonant cedar (solid), spruce class AA.
Neck: rosewood.
Cover and stand: rosewood, ebony.
24 frets.
Shell: rosewood, mahogany.
Peg line mechanics: metal, chrome, closed.
Flush outlet and the angles from valuable breeds of a tree.
Inlaid tool carving, natural bone, mother of pearl.
Coating: glossy.
The body of the domra, a round, deep, hemispherical, made of wood. Traditionally, birch, maple, walnut wood is used, but you can also find rosewood or beech domras. Cheap models can be equipped with a plastic case. For the formation of characteristic form, seven (sometimes nine) of curved staves (planks) are glued other or both ends. The case is closed with a flat top deck made of resonant spruce or cedar. As played on the domra with a pick upper deck needs protection. For this purpose, the shell, manufactured with wood of firm breeds. The neck of the domra is not very long, with an overlay of solid wood, with embedded metal frets.
The strings are attached to the lower part of the instrument body, to special buttons. The stand, which is designed to transmit the vibrations of the strings to the upper deck, is not fixed and is held in place only by the pressure of the stretched strings. The string is stretched through the cuts in the stand and attached to the bar, located on the head of the neck.
The structure of the three-string domra is quart, its tonal range is 2 octaves and 10 semitones. The four-stringed domra has a quintic structure, the range of sound is somewhat wider-3 octaves and 9 semitones.
The domr family with the support of balalaika form a balalaika-domra orchestra. Four-string domras cope with this task and without relatives, making an orchestra of domr Piccolo, viola, tenor, bass, double bass. Leads and soloists in a similar orchestra small domra, which is also called the prima.
Today domra sounds solo, in ensemble, orchestra, for it write concerts and create transcriptions. Its characteristic trembling, bright, but at the same time soft and gentle sound every year conquers more and more hearts all over the world.
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