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Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar' called the guqin?
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There's a one string slide koto, but I don't know what it's called. I don't remember where I saw it.
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tairaku are you thinking of the ichigenkin ?
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Dokyoku Dobro?
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I forgot about the ichigenkin.
eMusic has Koto: Music of the One-string Ichigenkin by Isshi Yamada. I downloaded this a while back. Very fine.
Edosan, someone in the shakuhachi community has to make an album with Jerry Douglas some day.
Last edited by Chris Moran (2008-04-24 21:40:07)
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I saw a guqin exhibit at the Smithsonian a few years back. The legend, art and history surrounding that instrument make shakuhachi look like a kazoo.
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Chris Moran wrote:
Edosan, someone in the shakuhachi community has to make an album with Jerry Douglas some day.
I'll get Riley on it, soonest...
...with his 'kazoo'.
eB
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Evidently the guqin itself does have a minor tradition in Japanese Bunjin (literati) culture- but was never "Japanified" as the xiao-to-shakuhachi or guzheng-to-koto.
see
http://www.silkqin.com/01mywk/themes/japan.htm
http://www.silkqin.com/09hist/other/toko.htm
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