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#1 2008-04-24 16:03:09
- Moran from Planet X
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Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar' called the guqin?
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#2 2008-04-24 19:29:05
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Re: Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
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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#3 2008-04-24 20:28:11
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Re: Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
tairaku are you thinking of the ichigenkin ?
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#4 2008-04-24 21:00:31
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Re: Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
Dokyoku Dobro?
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It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
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#5 2008-04-24 21:36:18
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Re: Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
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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#6 2008-04-24 22:19:20
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Re: Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
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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#7 2008-04-24 23:00:52
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Re: Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
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'.
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#8 2008-04-25 06:22:37
- Glenn Swann
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Re: Any Japanese equivalent to the Chinese 'slide-guitar'?
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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