Tuning Sanshin



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traditionally, players wear plectrum, made of material such water buffalo horn, on index finger. today, use guitar pick or nail of index finger. in amami, long, narrow bamboo plectra used, allow higher-pitched tone of okinawa sanshin.


a bamboo bridge raises strings off skin, white, except in amami, yellower , thinner. traditional names strings (from thick thin) uujiru (男絃, male string ), nakajiru (中絃, middle string ), , miijiru (女絃, female string ). sanshin has 5 tunings called chindami (ちんだみ):



hon chōshi (本調子) – standard tuning (i.e. c3, f3, c4 expressed in terms of scientific pitch notation)
ichi-agi chōshi (一揚調子) – first-string raised tuning (i.e. e♭3, f3, c4)
ni-agi chōshi (二揚調子) – second-string raised tuning (i.e. c3, g3, c4)
ichi, ni-agi chōshi (一、二揚調子) – first- , second-strings raised tuning (i.e. d3, g3, c4)
san-sage chōshi (三下げ調子) – third-string lowered tuning (i.e. c3, f3, b♭3)




^ 滝原, 康盛 (1964). ryūkyū minyō kunkunshi 琉球民謡工工四. ryūkyū ongaku gakufu kenkyūsho 琉球音楽楽譜研究所, naha, okinawa. 






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