Talk:Skomorokh/Archives/2012

Replacing tinyurl links with direct links
I did this merely as a minor matainence task; the URL is not visible in the rendered page, and having a direct URL allows readers of the page to more easily determine the site they will go to if they click on the link, rather than a tinyurl link which is opaque. There have been problems with vandals changing tinyurls to point to shock sites(I think), modifications of direct URLs are more obvious. I will not revert this(as I can't see that it matters much), but I would ask, if no comments have been made for one week, that whoever reads this do the reversion. JesseW, the juggling janitor 19:17, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Now that you explained your rationale, it's all right with me. --Ghirla | talk 23:42, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Instruments
"to the sounds of domra, balalaika, gudok, bagpipes, or buben (a kind of tambourine)". This is an anacronism. I don't think that they played domras and balalaikas, or at least that is not what they were called at the time. Can anyone procvide a source for that? AT the time of the Skomorokh the generic word for a stringed instrument was gusli. Balalaikas beganbacame popular only inthe second half od the 19th =century. The term Domra is thought to have been a percussive instrument that was mistakenly used fopr a variant of the balalaikaBandurist (talk) 13:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)