Assertion: balalaika | /r/HasProperty | developed by late 19th century
Facets:
value: from unstandardized folk lutes
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Developed from unstandardized folk lutes by the nobleman Andreyev by the late 19th century into a whole family of instruments with standard tunings, the balalaika has become one of the most important plucked stringed instruments in Eastern Europe, and the quintessential lute in Russia and the Ukraine.