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A woman playing the shō. The shō was first used as a solo instrument for contemporary music by the Japanese performer Mayumi Miyata.Miyata and other shō players who specialize in contemporary music use specially constructed instruments whose silent pipes are replaced by pipes that sound notes unavailable on the more traditional instrument, giving a wider range of pitches.
The museum was inaugurated in April 1995. In 2014, the museum received the Fumio Koizumi Music Prize. [1] In the museum, concerts are performed with instruments of historical value, these concerts are recorded on CDs, and sold on albums under the name of "Hamamatsu City Musical Instrument Museum Collection Series", these albums are used in music education venues. [2]
Pages in category "Musical instrument museums in Japan" ... Otaru Music Box Museum This page was last edited on 20 May 2024, at 05:22 (UTC). Text ...
[9] [10] The designs of these Japanese and East Asian treasures show Iranian, Greek, Roman, and Egyptian influences due to cultural exchange via the Silk Road. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Although these collections are not open to the public, selections are shown at Nara National Museum once a year in autumn.
Shamisen – a banjo-like lute with three strings; brought to Japan from China in the 16th century. Popular in Edo's pleasure districts, the shamisen is often used in kabuki theater. Made from red sandalwood and ranging from 1.1 to 1.4 metres (3 ft 7 in to 4 ft 7 in) long, the shamisen has ivory pegs, strings made from twisted silk, and a belly ...
Otaru Music Box Museum (小樽オルゴール堂) is a music museum in the Otaru Orgel-do II building in Otaru, Japan. It includes various examples of music boxes as well as CDs that have music box-esque versions of various songs. Chris Bamforth of The Japan Times wrote that it had an "absolutely phenomenal" variety of music. [1]
In the related woodwind instruments, a vibrating reed is used to set a column of air in vibration within the instrument. In such instruments, the pitch is primarily determined by the effective length of that column of air. Although the Chinese sheng, Japanese sho and Laotian khene have pipes, the pipes do not determine the pitch. In these ...
Sho, Tibet; Sho (letter), for the Bactrian language; Shō (unit) (升), a Japanese unit of volume; Shō River, Japan; Regulation SHO; Senior house officer, in hospitals in Ireland; Showtime (TV network) Shutout, in team games; Station house officer, of a police station in India and Pakistan; VV SHO, a Dutch soccer club; An historical currency ...