The names of these now almost obsolete instruments were rappaka, tibia, archlute, tambour, kiffar, quinteme, rebel, tuckin, archviola, lyre, serpentine, chluy, viola da gamba, balalaika, gong, ravanastron, monochord, shopkar.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
I've got a balalaika; you can't play on it, can you?
"Beyond"
John Galsworthy
P. 43, line 14, for "balolaika" read "balalaika."
"'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany"
Gerald Featherstone Knight