12/1/2023 0 Comments Shamisen![]() Synthetic skin is also used sometimes, but it is not preferred because its tone quality is inferior to natural skin. For Tsugaru-jamisen (Tsugaru-shamisen), with some exceptions, dog skin is used. This pattern is called 'ayasugi', which improves the quality of its sound.Īlthough the abdominal skin of cats had been generally used, because of its high price and decline in production, nowadays dog skin is used for practice shamisen and others, accounting for seventy-percent of the total. Higher-grade instruments have a minute pattern carved all over the inner surface of the do. ![]() Do are all made of quince, but there were some made of mulberry and Japanese zelkova in the old days. Wood suitable for making sao is hard, fine-grained, and of a high specific gravity. For some unique articles, sandalwood and Bombay black wood are also used. Nowadays, some sao are made of snakewood. In the past, there were also many sao made of oak or mulberry. The material used for high-grade instruments is koki (a kind of tree) (grown in India) there are also other kinds of sao made of rosewood or quince (grown in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos). On the other hand, some sao are divided into more than five parts. Sao without division is called 'nobezao.' It is mainly designed for storage and portability, and also to prevent sao from becoming warped. Many sao are divided into three parts: kamizao, nakazao, and shimozao, and this kind of sao is called 'mitsuore' (threefold). The instrument itself consists of 'tenjin' (or itogura: pegbox), 'sao' (neck), and 'do' (body). In Okinawa Prefecture and Amami islands of Kagoshima Prefecture, it is also called sanshin. It is also called 'mitsuno-o' as a classical expression. ![]() In the world of traditional Japanese music of the early-modern times, especially the world of jiuta (a genre of traditional songs with shamisen accompaniment), sokyoku (koto music) (combined with the kokyu (Chinese fiddle) music, they are called " sankyoku" or instrumental trio), and so on shamisen is sometimes called ' sangen' (a three-stringed musical instrument), written as '三弦' or '三絃.' Generally, it is played with a bachi in the shape of a spatula, but there are fine differences depending upon the rendition of shamisen music. It probably originated between fifteenth and sixteenth century, having a relatively short history for a traditional Japanese musical instrument. The wooden body is square and flat, and both sides are covered with skin the neck extends through the body, on which strings are plucked with a bachi (a plectrum) shaped like a ginkgo leaf. Shamisen is a Japanese stringed musical instrument with a neck. Shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese banjo) ( 三味線) ![]()
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