Hello, so I want to buy my first shamisen, and I found this one on etsy, but I am also looking at kyles beginner shamisen. Can anyone share some advice on the right move?
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Hello,
I don’t know the vendor but the set looks pretty good and I can’t find anything in the description which alarm me. I asked the vendor for some question and he answered me in daytime. So it looks pretty nice for me 
Please share your experience if you buy it, I’m thinking about buying one for myself too 
Best regards,
Florian
i bought a shamisen from them, a tsugaru karin one. its great! the sawari is nice, the bachi too. i love it. the skin is also very tight. it seems as if the skin is glued on with regular glue instead or rice glue though. took a whole month to get to america, but definitely worth the wait.
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I can confirm that synthetic skins (Kyle’s included) are glued with a special very-high resistance glue, that will last for many many years. Rice glue cannot hold synthetic skin at the tightness that it is applied.
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