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Anna Brodsky, Adolph Brodsky
Royal Manchester College Of Music (RMCM)
1900

This is a balalaika, a Russian three-stringed folk guitar. This particular instrument was owned Olga Skadovsky Picard, who was the sister of Anna Brodsky, and the sister in law of the second Principal of the RMCM, Adolf Brodsky.
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