Family V
Kolpakov
Kolpakov Trio
Russian Roma — seven-string guitar line
Style: Russian Romani romances
Keepers of the Russian Romani seven-string guitar. Family teaching. A line that nearly vanished when the Spanish six-string took over.
The Kolpakov family teaches the semistrunnaya — seven-string guitar, tabor song, choir memory. The trio is the public form of a domestic craft.
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 1
Kolpakov Trio
Seven-string guitar, voice · late 20th c.–
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
late 20th c.
New orchestra
Seven-string kept
Kolpakov Trio
Family teaching of Russian Romani guitar when the six-string had almost won.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Loyko — Russian Roma — violin and guitar