February 2009
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Mensoure （めんそーれ）
(I dictated the notes and a friend wrote it down for me, so sorry for the messy handwriting.)
This song was composed by one of the National Living Treasures of the sanshin—master Choichi Terukina. It came into my possession in a rather interesting way. A student of Terukina sensei was a classmate of mine at RyuDai, and he was more than willing to teach me to sing and play the sanshin...
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Travel with a snakeskin sanshin?
Question: Have you asked about traveling with a snakeskin sanshin before?
I can honestly say that I have! I spoke with the second in command at Chindami Kougei, and since he has gone abroad to perform the sanshin in Brazil before, I asked if he’s had any problems taking snakeskin sanshin into other countries. He said he hadn’t had any problems going into Brazil with seven or so...
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Sanshin playing robot
Created by the electrical engineering department at Ryukyu University, these two robots can play over 50 different Okinawan folk songs.
Sorry for the video’s poor quality, but the only video camera I had on me was my phone.