| One is a real contrabass balalaika, I brought it from Russia. |
| Rouletabille listened to the voice dying away with the last sob of the balalaika. |
| The porter Yermolay passed him with his balalaika, glanced at him and shrugged his shoulders. |
| The dombra: this forerunner of the balalaika is a lute-like instrument with round body, long neck and 3 metal strings. |
| One of the children played a balalaika and sang in a broken, mournful voice that did not at all belong to her age. |
| But the hands also appear, at the beginning, playing instruments: accordion, balalaika, drums. |
