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    Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They...
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    Grouping of musical instruments, Tang dynasty Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as bā yīn (八音). The eight...
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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...
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    a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments. As the number of different stringed instruments in Japan grew, the once-basic definition...
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  • A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in...
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    Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. 'Japanese music') as a...
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    biwa (Japanese: 琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked wooden lute traditionally used in narrative storytelling. The biwa is a plucked string instrument that first...
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    harp. Traditionally, the instruments are classified into five groups called pyissin turiya (ပဉ္စင်တူရိယာ). These instruments are played on a musical scale...
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    Shamisen (category Japanese musical instruments)
    three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian. It is played with a plectrum called a bachi. The Japanese pronunciation...
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    many musical instruments. In South and South East Asia, traditional uses of bamboo the instrument include various types of woodwind instruments, such...
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