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    Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They...
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    Grouping of musical instruments, Tang dynasty Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as bā yīn (八音). The eight...
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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...
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  • A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in...
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    a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments. As the number of different stringed instruments in Japan grew, the once-basic definition...
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    Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. 'Japanese music') as a...
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    Shamisen (category Japanese musical instruments)
    three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian. It is played with a plectrum called a bachi. The Japanese pronunciation...
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  • qenet, such as tizita, a song of reminiscence. When played on traditional instruments, these modes are generally not tempered (that is, the pitches may...
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    harp. Traditionally, the instruments are classified into five groups called pyissin turiya (ပဉ္စင်တူရိယာ). These instruments are played on a musical scale...
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    biwa (Japanese: 琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked wooden lute traditionally used in narrative storytelling. The biwa is a plucked string instrument that first...
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  • Commons has media related to Musical instruments of Mongolia. Music of Mongolia Traditional Korean musical instruments Хөгжим 8-9 (Ulaanbaatar 2009)...
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    many musical instruments. In South and South East Asia, traditional uses of bamboo the instrument include various types of woodwind instruments, such...
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    roughly 1750 to 1900, many new musical instruments were developed. While the evolution of traditional musical instruments slowed beginning in the 20th century...
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    shō (笙) is a Japanese free reed musical instrument descended from the Chinese sheng, of the Tang dynasty era, which was introduced to Japan during the Nara...
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  • Senbonzakura (song) (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    with traditional Japanese musical instruments". ajapper. 7 January 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2021. "祝★千本桜1周年!記念アルバム発売も決定!". Niconico (in Japanese). 16 August...
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    vocals. The kacapi is a traditional zither of Sundanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese guzheng, and similar to the Japanese koto, the Mongolian...
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    Ocarina (redirect from Huaca (instrument))
    ocarina belongs to a very old family of instruments, believed to date back over 12,000 years. Ocarina-type instruments have been of particular importance in...
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  • Shinto music (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    (太鼓) may also be found. Dengaku Gagaku Kagura Matsuri Traditional Japanese musical instruments Sadie, Stanley, ed. (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of...
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    Japanese traditional dance describes a number of Japanese dance styles with a long history and prescribed method of performance. Some of the oldest forms...
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    Musical Instruments. Kodansha International. p. 7. ISBN 978-4-7700-2395-7. Malm, William Paul (1983). Japanese music and musical instruments (9th pr ed...
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    Japanese dolls (人形, ningyō, lit. 'human form') are one of the traditional Japanese crafts. There are various types of traditional dolls, some representing...
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    In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...
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  • November Steps (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Novenbā Suteppusu) is a musical composition by the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, for the traditional Japanese musical instruments, shakuhachi and biwa...
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    Taiko (redirect from Japanese drum)
    are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, the term taiko refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically...
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  • William P. (1959). Japanese Music and Musical Instruments. Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Matsumiya, Suiho (1959). "Traditional Music in Japan To-Day: Its Stability...
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    with their own techniques, instruments, and songs. The largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. Traditional music from Nigeria and throughout...
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    instruments such as pipe organs and amplified instruments such as electric guitars. The category was added to the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument...
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    Hyōshigi (category Japanese musical instruments)
    other traditional Japanese instruments in mikagura-uta, or cycle of songs, which is characteristic of the Tenrikyo religion. The clapping instrument was...
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    Rin' (category Musical groups from Tokyo)
    Rin' is an all-female Japanese pop group which combines traditional Japanese musical instruments and style with elements of modern pop and rock music....
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    to certain events. Bonshō Japanese bells Shōko (instrument) Suzu Malm, William (2013). Japanese Music and Musical Instruments. Tuttle Publishing. p. 58...
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