3S-RS Sputnik Red Star Traditional balalaika, Balalaiker

Description:

3S-RS Sputnik Red Star Traditional balalaika, Balalaiker

Traditional balalaika with a star-shaped resonator hole. A special model of the traditional balalaika with a five- sections body. The character of the instrument consists of a medium-sized body, bright open sound and effective decor.
Balalaiker Sputnik Red Star is balanced in its acoustic characteristics and has a bright readable sound. The style of the model was inspired by serial balalaikas with a characteristic "star" decor, created at various enterprises of the USSR in the period of the 1920s and 30s.

Body: 5 sections, birch, maple, size – prima.
Scale: 440mm.
Overall length: 687mm.
Body width: 420mm.
Body depth: 115mm.
Materials: beech, birch.
Top: resonance spruce C.
Binding: hornbeam.
Back: spruce/fir.
Rosette: star.
Neck: maple, oval.
Fingerboard: hornbeam.
Marking: plastic.
Nut width: 28mm, horn
Frets: 16, nickel silver Sintoms 2mm.
Bridge: maple, traditional.
Tuners: bar-mounted, open, Alice.
Strings: Balalaiker set No1 "Regular", steel.
Colour: ruby.
Finish: polyurethane matte lacquer.