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| Kids Web Japan: Koto |
Brief history of traditional instruments, parts of the koto with photographs, and an interactive virtual koto. |
| O-Koto |
Introduction to the instrument, Sakura Sakura, and a virtual koto [Flash required]. |
| Koto no Koto |
Includes a description and the history of the instrument, directories of musicians, performances, teachers, and courses, recordings, song index, books, supplies, message board, and links. |
| Ishigure, Masayo |
New York-based traditional and contemporary koto musician and instructor at the Sawai Koto Academy. Includes biography, schedule, discography, and links. |
| Koto: Japanese Traditional Musical Instrument |
Koto information, sound clips, and instruction. |
| Obata, Reiko |
Southern California-based traditional and contemporary koto musician. Includes profile, concert and storytelling performance schedules, recording samples and ordering, instrument descriptions and sound clips, recommended books and videos, and links. |
| Koto Scores |
Scores for learning the koto, using Hiro, Nogi, Gaku, and Western tunings. Includes MIDI samples, sound dictionary, and a score generator. |
| Marimo-kai |
Japanese koto group perfoming in the San Francisco Bay Area. Contains news, pictures, and biography. |
| Marimo-kai |
Japanese koto group perfoming in the San Francisco Bay Area. Contains news, pictures, and biography. |
| Holding, Melissa |
Official site of Japanese music specialist. Includes sound bites of her koto playing, discography, and contact information. |
| MacGregor, Andrew |
Japan World Music. Biography, discography, lessons, notes on care and cleaning. Based in Australia. |
| Caplan, Linda "Kakõ" |
Koto master from Canada. Credentials, information about the instrument and its music. |
| MacGregor, Andrew |
Victoria, Australia-based shakuhachi performer and teacher. Includes biography, discography, and lesson schedule, flute care and technical notes, festival reports with photographs, ordering of CDs and student flutes, and Australian and... |
| Caplan, Linda |
Master-level performer and teacher based in Toronto, Canada. Includes her credentials, performances and classes, recordings, construction of the koto, biography of Chikushi Katsuko, and links. |
| KotoWorld |
Includes introduction, tuning, popular performers, discography, mailing list, and links. |
| AsiaSound : The Koto |
Includes history, Yatsuhashi-ryu and modern styles, audio samples, and an interview with composer and performer Ten Jinchi. |
| Miya Masaoka |
Biography from the Other Minds Festival touching on her wide range of musical accomplishments. Includes photograph of her playing the koto. |
| Washington Toho Koto Society |
Washington, DC group of players and friends. Includes calendar of events, photo gallery, and CD ordering. |
| Yoshizawa , Masakazu and Gumi, Kokin |
The artist and the performing group. Discography, performances and contact information. |
| The Association for International Exchange of Japanese Music |
Information on the association and its goals. Contains a database with information on Japanese traditional music for the koto, shamisen or shakuhachi. [Bilingual English/Japanese] |
| Miya Masaoka |
Wikipedia article involving her works, performances, and teaching. Includes internal references to related people and topics and links. |
| Indo-Japanese Music Exchange Association |
Promoting opportunities for Japanese and Indian musicians to observe, study and appreciate the classical music of their counterparts. Workshops and performances have included playing Indian classical music on shakuhachi and ragas on shakuhachi... |
| Yoshizawa, Masakazu |
Performances with various Japanese flutes (shakuhachi, shinobue, hichiriki, nokan, etc.) and percussion instruments (the various taiko, tsusumi drums and other percusives). |
| Knowledge Hound - Music |
Links to tutorials for many instruments, recording, MIDI, music theory and music business. |
| Drammeh, Oko |
African producer and entrepreneur. Website features details of business activities and of the African Music Festival. |
| Lee, Angela J. |
Chinese-American gu-zheng master performer. |
| Bei Shu Shakuhachi Workshop |
Tom W. Deaver, flute maker, based in Japan. Information about bamboo, sizes, prices, playing guides and recordings. |
| Japanese Culture: Musical Instruments |
An introduction to the traditional drums, stringed instruments, and flutes of Japan. |
| Singer, John |
Master shakuhachi teacher, performer, recording artist specializing in Honkyoku. Includes the history of the Nezasa Ha Kinpu Ryu and a list of the pieces, photo gallery of flutes, CD ordering, and links. |
| Singer, John |
Master shakuhachi teacher, performer, recording artist specializing in Honkyoku. Includes the history of the Nezasa Ha Kinpu Ryu and a list of the pieces, photo gallery of flutes, CD ordering, and links. |
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