They've been around in Russia too. There are two original 19th century
5-string bandurkas in the St-Petersburg collection; shallow-bodied,
fairly small in size (the one on your link looks like a re-construction
to me). By the way, I've never heard about 5-course bandurkas ... Also,
I'm not sure they are in any way related (i.e. music wise) to the guitar
tradition.
Alexander
On 03/02/2011 18:04, Roman Turovsky wrote:
5 course/string guitars survived into the 19th century in Ukraine:
http://polyhymnion.org/images/bandurka.jpg !
RT
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