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Gadulka
String instrument
Other names
Gadulka[1] chicpeo[2]
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
321.321-71 (Necked bowl lute sounded by a bow)
A street musician in Toulouse, France, playing a gadulka.
The gadulka (Bulgarian: гъдулка) is a traditional Bulgarian bowed string instrument. Alternate spellings are "gǎdulka", "gudulka" and "g'dulka". Its name comes from a root meaning "to make noise, hum or buzz". The gadulka is an integral part of Bulgarian traditional instrumental ensembles, commonly played in the context of dance music.[3]
The gadulka commonly has three (occasionally four or five Mincho Minchev) main strings with up to sixteen sympathetic resonating strings underneath introduced by the legendary Mincho Nedyalkov. Only the main melodic strings are touched by the player's fingers and the strings are never pressed all the way down to touch the neck. The gadulka is held vertically, with the bow held perpendicular in an under-hand hold.[3]
There is a smaller variant of the instrument in the Dobrudja region with no sympathetic strings at all.
Gadulka's possible origin may be the lira, the bowed Byzantine instrument of the 9th century AD and ancestor of most Western European bowed instruments. Similar bowed instruments and lira descendants have continued to be played in the Mediterranean and Southeast Europe until the present day, for example the similar in construction Gusle from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania; also the lyra of Crete and the Dodecanese, Greece; the Lira Calabrese of Calabria; Italy and the Classical kemence in Istanbul, Turkey.
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^ ab"Gadulka (Гъдулка)". Crookeddance.wordpress.com. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
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