ichigenkin
Ja-Latn • Illustration — Nigenkin is a close relative of ichigenkin The literally "one-string zither" or "Monochord", also sumagoto / 須磨琴 is a Japanese single-stringed plucked zither. Its body is a slender, slightly curved plank carved from kiri (Paulownia tomentosa) wood. Its raw silk string is plucked with a tubular plectrum placed on the index finger of the right hand while a tubular ivory device similar to a guitar slide placed over the middle finger of the left hand slightly depresses the string—though not so hard that it presses against the hardwood soundboard—to vary the pitch.
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ichigenkin
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Ja-Latn • Illustration — Nigenkin is a close relative of ichigenkin The literally "one-string zither" or "Monochord", also sumagoto / 須磨琴 is a Japanese single-stringed plucked zither. Its body is a slender, slightly curved plank carved from kiri (Paulownia tomentosa) wood. Its raw silk string is plucked with a tubular plectrum placed on the index finger of the right hand while a tubular ivory device similar to a guitar slide placed over the middle finger of the left hand slightly depresses the string—though not so hard that it presses against the hardwood soundboard—to vary the pitch.
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- 1.Rowe, Charles Edward. The Role Of Music In Omoto, A Japanese New Religion. School of Oriental and African Studies, Unpublished. p. 123.
- 2.Rowe, Charles Edward. The Role Of Music In Omoto, A Japanese New Religion. School of Oriental and African Studies, Unpublished. p. 133.
- 3.Nigenkin.
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