Talk:Traditional Japanese musical instruments

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[edit] To do

  • Add the guqin, which was used to a small degree in Japan. Badagnani 07:29, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Add the "ikko," a drum used in some forms of gagaku. Badagnani 20:38, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Add ancient instruments (verify that they were used):
    • Kugo = harp
    • hokyo, hensho, kugo, shigen biwa
    • Hokyo - In this piece, the following reigaku instruments are used: Hokyo (a set of metal slab chimes), Hensho (a set of bronze bell chimes), Kugo (an ancient angular harp
    • Mamoru Fujieda: Tengoku no Natsu (Summer in Heaven), commissioned by the National Theatre of Japan, is composed for four shomyo voices and four reigaku instruments. Badagnani (talk) 20:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jew's harp

Was the Jew's harp (口琴) traditional to Japan? Badagnani (talk) 05:51, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-use of conical oboe

Why did the Japanese, unlike the Koreans and Vietnamese, not adopt the suona (cylindrical oboe/shawm)? Or did they once use it and it died out? Badagnani (talk) 21:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)