Traditional Japanese instrument

lesson for beginners and tourists in Tokyo.

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When you pluck string , make sure you also hit Bachi-kawa (I call here as "D-zone")on surface of the body to make rich sound. It guards surface of the body from struck by plectrum.

As long as we play instruments,

we have to care the volume.

 

*Close all windows

*Shut curtains

*Open all closet, chest and Oshiire(Japanese closet)

 

and try this wooden long bridge called Shinobi Goma.

And Wooden Bachi makes smaller sound than plastic or ivory Bachi.

 

If you don't have one, you can put KOMA really close

to NEO. It can smaller the sound, too.

Spare 3rd string on side of the body.

 

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