![]() Her goal is to invite people to enjoy unusually beautiful and peaceful music. Oregon Koto-Kai was founded by koto master Mitsuki Dazai, who moved to Oregon in 2002. Koto has been played in Oregon for quite a long time and the instrument is becoming well known in our diverse community. In contemporary ensemble music, the 17 string bass koto is often used in addition to the standard 13 string koto. In addition, with its adjustable string bridges, it is capable of producing various scales – from typical Japanese pentatonic scales to Western music. Since it has a long history, the music of koto may vary from very old traditional Japanese music to pieces in contemporary styles. Koto is Japan’s national musical instrument. The instrument’s body is made of wood from a dark-bark spruce. ![]() It is normally composed of 5 strings and 2 bridges one at the top and another at the bottom but doesn’t have any frets. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese n tranh, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakhstan jetigen. Koto master Mitsuki Dazai / Photo by Aaron Lee Tonkori is a traditional Japanese string instrument from the Ainu tribe who are known to be the original northern Japan inhabitants. The koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. At the same time, Japanese music composers tried to take western musical elements into their work. The instrument is played with small picks of the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand (the left meanwhile may raise the pitch or modify the tone).įrom late 1960s, western music composers discovered the way to adopt Japanese traditional musical instruments into their works. The koto body is made out of paulownia wood, is about six feet long, has movable bridges for each string, and many tunings. A standard koto has 13 strings but the earliest koto had only five strings and was about one meter (three feet) long. Koto is a string instrument with more than a thousand year history in Japan. The lyre has two arms with a yoke or crossbar connecting them, and the strings between the crossbar and the soundboard. Therefore, even Chinese stringed instruments erhu (two-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow) and gaohu (Chinese bowed string instrument developed.
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