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Thanks that helped alot. do you have to go to a special place to her people play that in japan?
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The best place would of course be Aomori, the home of Tsugaru Jamisen. They seem to have many competitions at all levels. I saw one on TV many years ago, and it blew my mind. You saw low teenagers with all those techniques there! I sadly live in Tokyo, which is an hour-and-a-half-long flight away from Aomori. |
Oh ok i see. but i bet tokyo could be a beautiful site when the sun goes down. so it is basically not that popular anymore then ?
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Right. That's the case at least among the younger generations, which is a shame.
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ok i would have to agree with you there and i think it would be awesome if teens would play because it is a shame to see something like that go to waste
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I forgot to mention this earlier.
The most influential of the men who developed this playing style was named Takahashi Chikuzan (1910 - 1998). Amazingly, he was a blind man. |
And he was blind? Well, that certainly is...impressive xD
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Yes, Ma'am. Too bad there's no video of him playing on Youtube. He toured the U.S. in 1986 and the New York Times called him 'the soul detector'.
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wow that is amazing :vsign:
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I just couldn't help but smile when I saw this thread ^__^ I'm actually doing my paper for World Music on the types of music involved with the shamisen :)
it is quite a wonderful instrument n__n |
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