![]() Since Shinei Matayoshi, a kokyū and sanshin musician and maker, invented and popularized a four-stringed version of the kokyū in order to expand the instrument's range, the kokyū has become much more popular. In central Japan, the kokyū was formerly used as an integral part of the sankyoku ensemble, along with the koto and shamisen, but beginning in the 20th century the shakuhachi began to play the role previously filled by the kokyū. It is often tuned the same as a shamisen but an octave higher. It has three (or, more rarely, four) strings and is played upright, with a horsehair-strung bow bowing the strings. In Okinawa, the body is round, while in mainland Japan, it is square like a shamisen. It is 70 centimetres (28 in) tall, with a neck made of ebony and a hollow body made of coconut or Styrax japonicus wood, covered on both ends with cat skin (or snakeskin in Okinawa). The kokyū is similar in construction to the shamisen, appearing as a smaller version of that instrument. Although it is similar to Chinese huqin, it actually came to Okinawa via the rebab from Indonesia and Malaysia. The kokyū, like the shamisen, has its origins in Okinawa. A variant of the instrument also exists in Okinawa, called kūchō ( 胡弓) in Okinawan. Shumoku is used to play bonsho (large temple bells).The kokyū ( 胡弓) is a traditional Japanese string instrument, the only one played with a bow. Hammers are mallets whose heads are made of wood or resin. Mallets are used to play mallet percussion instruments and tympani. For triangles, thin metal sticks are used. For bass drums and dora, sticks with round felt on the tip are normally used. Drum sticks whose tips are tapered with a ball of round shape or in the shape of acorns are often used.īeaters are used to play bass drums, dora, and triangles. They are made of wood.ĭrum sticks are used to play snare drums and drum sets. Typically, they are round sticks that have a certain level of thickness, which are the same, but for some musical instruments, sticks with thick orbs on their tips or those in the shape of a hammer are used. The surface is made of felt.īachi are used to play percussion instruments such as Wadaiko drums (membranophone) or dora (gongs) (idiophone). These are used to beat the strings when playing stringed instruments, hammering on its strings such as yokin (Mideastern typical folk instrument, stringed instruments of zither family), dulcimers, and santurs. ![]() Picks of one type have small plate-like shape and are held between fingers, and the other types of picks are put on the fingertips. ![]() Giko is used to play taishogoto (Japanese harp with three to five strings). Giko (tool put on the fingertip to pluck the strings) Players of sanshin (Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument) and so (a long Japanese zither with thirteen strings) put tsume on their fingertips to play the musical instruments. Bachi of shamisen are subdivided by their shapes and sizes according to different categories. They are made of wood, buffalo horns, ivory, plastic, tortoise shells, etc. Both are characterized by their shape like gingko leaves. Bachi of shamisen is said to have its genesis in bachi of biwa. The following items also describe tools for related musical instruments.īachi (plectrum) is used to play shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese banjo) or biwa (Japanese lute) (plucked string instruments). The Japanese word 'bachi' is used for both musical instruments that you hook and release and musical instruments that you beat. Bachi (撥) is a stick-shaped tool used to pluck (hook and release, or hammer) the string (stringed instruments) or the film. ![]()
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