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Stringing the sanshin
Question: How do I string my sanshin?
This is something I didn’t know before, but picked up from karakui.com. If you’re unsure of which strings go where, just count the loops to determine which string is which—six loops for uujiru, seven loops for nakajiru, and eight loops for miijiru.
Anyways, find the gen you want to string and insert it through the “underside” of itokake. Take the gen around, under itself, loop the end, and insert the new loop into the larger loop. It’s a little difficult to describe how to do it in words, so I’ve restrung my miijiru to show how the process should go.
To finish, close the knot by pulling on the string; you might want to hold onto the loop part of the knot while you do so to keep it in place.
