Tuning of Shamisen
Tuning is differnce with guitar and other instruments that you know.
At first bigest string tuning with your boice or singer's boice.
And you tuning another 2 strings like these tables.
Usually, that Syamisen's tunig are 3 kind of tune.
Those are "Hon-choshi", "Niagari-choshi" and "San-sagari".
And Syamisen's strings are mede from silk. Plaier can keep good tuning just only 1 minute.
These thing is one of reson why it has not fret like guitar.
Every plaier are adjust posistion when they are plaing it.
Tuning of Syamisen
Hon-choshi
| Bigest string |
A | A# | B | C | C# | D |
D# | E | F | F# | G | G# |
|---|
| Midle string |
D | D# | E | F | F# | G |
G# | A | A# | B | C | C# |
|---|
| Fine string |
A | A# | B | C | C# | D |
D# | E | F | F# | G | G# |
|---|
Niagari-choshi
| biggest string |
A | A# | B | C | C# | D |
D# | E | F | F# | G | G# |
|---|
| Midle string |
E | F | F# | G | G# | A |
A# | B | C | C# | D | D# |
|---|
| Fine string |
A | A# | B | C | C# | D |
D# | E | F | F# | G | G# |
|---|
San-sagari
| Biggest string |
A | A# | B | C | C# | D |
D# | E | F | F# | G | G# |
|---|
| Midle string |
D | D# | E | F | F# | G |
G# | A | A# | B | C | C# |
|---|
| Fine string |
G | G# | A | A# | B | C |
C# | D | D# | E | F | F# |
|---|
At "Hon-choshi" and "Niagari-choshi", small string is 1 octave difference with biggest string.
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