Talk:Traditional Japanese musical instruments
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[edit] To do
- 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)

