Custom Doff Model Doff DPS (Doff Domra Prima School) 2016 Matte Natural

No one knew in XIX century about Domra Prima existence. Only in the end of century the first orchestra leader of Russian-folk instruments,

Musician explorer Vasily Andreev has done the most difficult painstaking work of restoration and improvement of Russian folk instruments.

Together with Semen Nalimov they developed the design of domra, based on the form and structure of unknown instrument with a hemispherical body, which was found by Andreev in 1896 in Vyatskaya province.

Historians still argue whether the instrument, which has found Andreev, was actually old domra or not. Nevertheless, the instrument was renovated in 1896 and was called "domra". The round body, the average length of the neck, three strings, quart system – it was the look of reconstructed domra.

Later, thanks to the closest Andreev’s associate, pianist and composer Nikolai Petrovich Fomin, domras family was created: piccolo, small, alto, bass, contrabass, which became part of the Russian Orchestra.

Specifications: 

Model               Doff DPS 

Body size     Prima (small)

Face deck           Solid cedar 

Rosette               Cut-in wooden, made from different wood species 

Body                    7 sections, typical configuration and dimensions to classical domra 

Purfling               Solid redwood 

Neck                   Redwood 

Bridge bone         Palisander 

Scale length             375-395mm/” 

Amount of frets       24 (albata) 

Neck width at the bridge bone       25mm/” 

Neck width at the 12th fret       30mm/”  

Fretboard and tripod’s material       Palisander 

Protective plate   High-impact plastic 

Pin material  High-impact plastic 

Mechanics         Metal, closed 

Pickup adapter        It can be installed as an option 

Performance versions     Available version for left-handers 

Packaging arrangement   Domra is completed with original box