Kokyu is a traditional Japanese string instrument, the only one played with a bow.
Although it was introduced to Japan from China along with the shamisen, its material, shape, and sound are unique to Japan.
Kokyu is similar in construction to shamisen, appearing like a smaller version of shamisen.
The neck and body made of wood, both sides of body are covered with animal leather.
It has three strings and is played upright, with the horse hair-strung bow rubbing against the strings.
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Detail:
Neck Material: Karin/ padauk
Body : Karin/ padauk
Skin: animal leather
Bow: bamboo, horse hair
Size:
Length: 72.0cm
Width: 14.5cm
Thickness: 7.0cm
Weight: approx.850g
Please select any one which you want among set items and accessories of the following list.
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For preventing a damage accident during shipment, it is shipped after each of parts of pegs etc is separated.
Only Kokyu:
1. Kokyu
2. Koma (Bridge)
3. Strings /already strung instrument
Kokyu + Bow:
1. Kokyu
2. Koma (Bridge)
3. Strings /already strung instrument
4. Bow
5. horse hair
Kokyu is the only Japanese traditional bowed string instrument.
It is vertically set up on knees, having three strings tuned in D-G-C (perfect 4th upward), or D-G-D (an octave, consisting of perfect 4th and 5th) as a standard setting, and do not have fret on the fingerboard.
On Kokyu playing, the body of the instrument is spun by left hand that also holds fingerboard, when moving form one string to another, unlike the string alternation on violoncello that depends on the angle of right had that holds a bow.
The kokyu has also been used in jazz and blues, with the American multi-instrumentalist Eric Golub pioneering the instrument's use in these non-traditional contexts.
One of the few non-Japanese performers of the instrument, he has recorded as a soloist as well as with the cross-cultural jazz band of John Kaizan Neptune.
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