Hello!
I want to know if, except Linda Caplan, is there someone else who plays koto
Thank you very much!
Nick Kari at least builds (and plays) the koto as well. Would like to learn myself one day - seems actually more straightforward to play than shamisen, so why not learn both? 
Overall it seems other Japanese/Asian guitar/violin like instruments pop up on the forum time to time, not koto or various drums that much.
No, at the moment I don’t want to play the koto, but wanted only to know if there are Others who play koto…
I have only played with my toys (mini-sized), and although I wished I could play formally, I just adjusted the tuning so they were all in harmony and I couldn’t make a mistake. I would walk my dog and carry a toy koto in one hand while strumming with the other. I haven’t fixed a vintage full-length koto I have. I did fix a full-length Chinese guzheng (also a zither), and was surprised that the tuning made it easy to play. I think koto is a wonderful instrument. Helping a koto player here, I was surprised at the length-- you feel like you are carrying a light but long surfboard. // Not that the koto should be modified in any way… but I learned about the Korean geomungo and a modern group called Geomungo Factory. So another thread talked about shamisen changes, and Geomungo Factory’s ideas can be carried over-- they split zithers to play different roles like a bass-version, another they use a bow, another they hooked up to amps, etc. Sorry, that is probably another thread, as it doesn’t go with the original question.
I didn’t understand at all…
So, do you have a toy koto? Did you learn guzheng? …
Hello Sakura, I’m playing koto in the north of England. Trying to convert people to Japanese music one small concert at a time.
EXCITING!
I want to know more about you!
I play the koto quite well. Songs such as “Sakura sakura” and “Kazoeuta”…
And what about juushichigen? Is there someone who can play it?
Thanks!
Enjoy!
I made something like a mini-ichigenkin: I took a Japanese wood plaque with ink art, added an old sanshin peg and old silk string, a piece of bamboo for a slide, and a bamboo pick. Now even prettier decor. It is a neat, soft sound, and I can clip on an electric pickup with an amplifier to make it louder. But I don’t really play. https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5bnn4ishocjf6l/mini-ichigenkin.jpg?dl=0 If anyone is interested in making one, here is someone who wrote about constructing one, with specifications: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52027
I think the Vietnamese dan bau is more popular. The only place that I have found that sells both is Sound of Asia (CA store and music center). // Here is more info on ichigenkin and a performer named Randy Raine-Reusch, Canadian multi-instrumentalist, who studied under Isshi Yamada [I do not know him personally]. A few old and contemporary recordings, with a few samples to hear:
http://www.ichigenkin.com/record.html
http://www.asza.com/zenone.shtml
But can I contact this ichigenkin performer, if I want?
The link I’ve provided you is sakura sakura, but with a modern rearrangement
A time, Yukie said me in koto concerts the players wear kimono. Is it right? Thanks!