For more information, or to purchase items, please contact Bruce Jones, sugagaki@gmail.com
Top to bottom: nagauta (standard) shamisen, gidayu shamisen, and kokyu, shown for relative scale.
Gidayu (Bass) Shamisen - used for Bunraku
Masa replaced both heads on this instrument.
Includes the case, ivory-tipped ebony bachi shown, a number of
different bridges, and a box of new strings.
This was obviously the instrument of someone who played professionally. Check out the hotel sticker on the case.
Price: $300
Shamisen #4:
Needs repair.
Price: $50.00
Kokyu
This is a small instrument, used in sankyoku performances before the
shakuhachi was introduced to the ensemble.
It is normally played with a bow.
Masa brought this back from Japan to play on the soundtrack of
Memoirs of a Geisha
The bow is lost.
Price: $200
Tsutsumi Drum Centers & etc.
These are advanced student quality tsutsumi.
Price: $100.00 each.
These are attached to the end of a standard koto and the strings run to the pegs. Then the koto can be tuned with a wrench rather than re-strung.
These are screwed to the end of the koto.
They are both are missing some parts, but a whole one
could be made from the pair.
Price: shipping and handling (pick up from me for free).