Assertion: balalaika's body | /r/HasProperty | carved
Facets:
value: from a solid block of wood
type: OTHER
value: originally
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Originally the body was carved from a solid block of wood, similar to the saz, but upon its arrival in Greece in the early 1910s it was modified by the addition of a staved back borrowed from the Neapolitan mandola, and the top angled in the manner of a Neapolitan mandolins so as to increase the strength of the body to withstand thicker steel strings.