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The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen. [1]
The 17-string koto (Japanese: 十七絃 or 十七弦, Hepburn: jūshichi-gen, "seventeen strings") is a variant of the koto with 17 strings instead of the typical 13.. The instrument is also known as jūshichi-gensō (十七絃箏), "17 stringed koto", or "bass koto" (although koto with a greater number of strings also exist).
Pages in category "Koto players" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 80-string koto; A.
Kimio Eto (衛藤公雄, Etō Kimio) (surname Etō, born 28 September 1924 in Ōita – died 24 December 2012 [1]) was a blind Japanese musician who played the koto. He began musical training at the age of eight with the renowned master Michio Miyagi. When he was eleven, he composed his first work.
The zither is played by plucking the strings while it lies flat on a table (which acts as a resonator to amplify the sound), or it can be held on the lap. On concert and Alpine zithers, the melody strings are pressed to the fingerboard ("fretted") with the fingers of the left hand, and plucked with a plectrum on the right thumb. The first and ...
She was one of the first koto players to play jazz on the koto and the only one to have released a CD of jazz standards. Obata produced the first English language koto instructional DVD You Can Play Koto, as well as produced and arranged the first all-Western notation koto books, Christmas Songs for Koto and Japanese Melodies for Koto.
In 1990, the band was the opening act for Miles Davis, [2] and in 1988 they played with T-Square at the Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall. Hiroshima consists of Dan Kuramoto (saxophone, flute, keyboards, shakuhachi), June Kuramoto (koto), Kimo Cornwell , Dean Cortez (Bass guitar), and Danny Yamamoto (drums and taiko). [2]
Blind women, known as goze (瞽女), toured beginning in the medieval era, sang and played accompanying music on a lap drum. [citation needed] From the seventeenth century they often played the koto or the shamisen. Goze organizations sprung up in many places, and existed until the 21st century in Niigata Prefecture. [citation needed]