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Shamisen – a banjo-like lute with three strings; brought to Japan from China in the 16th century. Popular in Edo's pleasure districts, the shamisen is often used in kabuki theater. Made from red sandalwood and ranging from 1.1 to 1.4 metres (3 ft 7 in to 4 ft 7 in) long, the shamisen has ivory pegs, strings made from twisted silk, and a belly ...
Japan [30] Sáo: Sáo trúc Vietnam [31] Shakuhachi: 尺八: Japan [32] [33] Shinobue or takebue Shinobue: kanji: 篠笛; Takebue: (kanji: 竹笛) Japan [34] All but the bottom flute are shinobue. The bottom flute is a Nohkan. Sogeum: 소금; 小笒: Korea [35] Suling: Indonesia [36] Man playing end-blown suling, a bamboo ring flute. Suling ...
Casio musical instruments (1 C, 11 P) K. ... Pages in category "Japanese musical instruments" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.
New instruments on the other hand might require years, or even decades, of use to be broken in. Only the cords holding the instrument need to be regularly replaced as they fray over time. The tsuzumi plays roles in both Noh and kabuki theater music, but it is also used in min'yō ( 民謡 ) , or Japanese folk music.
The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen. [1]
Ron Korb's Asian Flute Gallery (features description and drawing of the Shinobue and other Japanese flutes); Syoji Yamaguchi's web site on Japanese transverse flutes Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine (features articles on making and playing of the Shinobue and other Japanese transverse flutes: yokobue or fue)
The history of the shakuhachi shows a variety of designs of inlaid mouthpieces that vary between certain traditional Japanese schools of shakuhachi. Thus, the Kinko Ryu, Myoan and Tozan Ryu, differ in different features in their line of mouthpiece design, coinciding in them the total non-use in their inlay of the semi-circumference formed by ...
The biwa (Japanese: 琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked wooden lute traditionally used in narrative storytelling. The biwa is a plucked string instrument that first gained popularity in China before spreading throughout East Asia, eventually reaching Japan sometime during the Nara period (710–794).