Well,i like to focus in only one instrument,But i already played mandolin,flute,and ocarina,now i’m focusing on sanshin. About koto…Well my sanshin teacher plays ryukyu sō which is koto’s father 
Clarinet
Electric Guitar
Nagauta Shamisen(still learning)
Chinese Erhu(still learning very hard to pay)
Not really that great at playing, but I try. Like I told Kyle I’m better at fixing shamisen than playing.
I can play the Erhu, I am in a band with a tibetan monk and a chinese multi-instrumentalist (extremely talented PHD in Ethnomusicology) and his main instrument in the Erhu and I used it to record some of the backing tracks on my recordings. I’m not terribly fantastic but i can read both Erhu notation and western notation for it and play enough to get by, maybe i’ll get one of those next, not really sure on ym next purchase, a store in the next town from me has a Saraswati Veena that i simply go all googley at everytime i see it… i may NEED to purchase that hahaha
I LOVE Vina! I support this decision entirely!
Ah, I love erhu. But, other than one semester of community college cello, I have very little experience with anything bowed.
On to the list:
6 guitars (my first love), 2 of them accoustic
3 electric basses (my main instrument and I’m a badass at it! [wink.nudge])
1 upright bass (I’m so-so)
2 nagauta shamisens
3 Turkish baglamas, one of which is a hybrid with a tanbur body. (Hey, there it is in the picture to the left!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanbur
and…
1 daf (persian frame drum)
On order:
1 setar (a four-stringed Persian lute)
1 Tsugaru shamisen purchased from this very site!
Others:
Trombone back in middle school. I’d seriously like to get my lips on one of them again.
I’ve composed songs on piano but can’t play worth a tinker.
I have played drums but don’t consider myself a drummer by any stretch. Gotta practice for that honor.
PS. Wow, I just found a site where you can hear my bass and background vocals all over three tracks by The Average Johnsons. (Always loved that name!) Give a listen if you get that bored.
http://www.cdreviewsbyyou.com/feature.php?reviewID=29&styleID=14
Quotes I LOVE Vina! I support this decision entirely!
well i need to fix my car first and save for some other things, could happen though, It’s tax return time so hopefully that will fund it’s purchase!
Okay, here’s my list of instruments:
1 Tsugaru shamisen (no surprise, i guess)
3 different Okinawa sanshin, including a kankara sanshin
1 sanba, kinda Okinawan percussion instrument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanba
1 Japanese taiko drum
Moreover, my wife owns one acustic and one electric violin, one cello, guitar and a Turkish kemençe from the Black Sea region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemenche).
Finally, there is a Great Scottish Bagpipe (rather used as a decoration for my Single Malt collection and a Ukulele, now our little son’s preferred instrument ^^)
Btw, erhu music is just great, hope to get one one day, too…
Let’s see…
Viola - from 5th grade until 12th (so about 8 years)
Juita Shamisen - just starting out!
I am a big fan of flutes too, and have a bamboo flute I got at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. It’s a transverse flute though, I can almost get a sound out of it.
I’m also a big fan of the koto, and it’s lucky my teacher also teaches it so I might take it up in the future after I give proper attention to the Shamisen.
Erhu is a beautiful instrument, not sure if i’ll ever play it but it would be hard to pass up the opportunity if it came to me!
I also woulden’t mind getting back into the ol’ Viola again one of these days, but sadly my Viola is still back in the US and due to complicated family issues I don’t see it getting mailed across anytime soon. (insert sad face)
…my wife owns…a Turkish kemençe from the Black Sea region >
That’s so cool! I’ve had the pleasure of playing baglama with a very good kemenche player. I got my start in Persian/Anatolian music from him and his band. I loves me some good kemenche!
I regularly practice classical piano, nagauta shamisen and tsuzumi (or kotsuzumi)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuzumi
(can’t get the link to work like everyone else did, sorry!)
In our drum group, I also do a bit on the otsuzumi, shimedaiko (the three drums are borrowed from Noh music, but we do mostly Kabuki related music) and various other traditional percussion instruments. I am often assigned to do the large gong and the orugoru. (pic of orgoru)
I have a wood shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese side-blown bamboo flute and a large bamboo flute from Hawaii. Speaking of Hawaii, I also like to do Hawaiian songs on the ukulele.
Wow! 
Impressive lists!!!
These days, I mostly only play shamisen and mandolin, but at my disposal, I have:
Guitar
Banjo
Fiddle
Bass
Latte art
Er-hu
Igil
Doshpuluur
Guzheng (never play it though… no time!)
Shakuhachi
Ukulele
Vocal styles:
Throat singing
Countertenor
Growls/screams (if you call it musical)
I’ve always wanted to try a K’ni. Looks simple enough to make though. 
yeah that’s one of the coolest instrument concepts ever
K’ni, seems awesome. We should make one and play when I visit. 
hahahaha Kyle you scream? you listen to metal???
Anne: Cool stuff. Bachido Blogcast right there.
Cristian: Yes and yes. 
(throat singing helped with screaming, and vice versa) My intention was to start a shamisen metal band this summer, but who knows if I’ll have time. 
We’ll see.
When it happens, I think we might cover Soilwork. Guitar riffs seem appropriate to duplicate with shamisen.
If you have any other ideas, let me know.
I got interested in Shamisen as an offshoot of both my interest in Japanese musics, and my activities building musical instruments (on a strictly amateur level - think: cigar box guitar & basses) I own and play a variety of instruments, including acoustic guitars and acoustic/electric guitars, both nylon and steel-strung. I currently own a very nice Alvarez Yairi classical, that I got in the 1970’s, and an Alvarez Yairi DY62C, as well as a Seagull parlor guitar. I also own a tenor banjo and a banjo-mandolin (Orpheum, 1920s).
The rack holds several electrics: a Peavey Generation (Steve Cropper) tele-style, a Martin GT-75 electric archtop, an Ibanez archtop, a Gibson Nitehawk that I’ve had for years, a Blue Star travel guitar that I use for slide, and an old Eko archtop that I’m repairing. I also have a frankensteinian experiment that started off as a Peavey T-60, but has evolved into a different life form.
One of my favorites is my Irish bouzouki, made by Trinity College.
We are also awash in ukuleles - mostly tenors and baritones, made by a number of different companies.
Right now, I have two basses: a Dean acoustic-electric bass, and a great Squier Jaquar Vintage modified short-scale bass, that I’m in love with! There’s also a modest but functional upright fretless bass that I made, with a cigar box body and homemade pickups. Sounds pretty good, amplified.
Along with all those, I’ve got myriad penny whistles and flutes, and my harmonicas, and the cigar box guitars and the pseudo-shamisen that I’ve cobbled together.
I’ve always got something under construction, but I work slowly, and play more than I work.
Music has saved my life, since I was disabled, about 30 years ago, and I love all aspects of it!
I’ve really been enjoying reading the emails on Bachido! This is a great site, and I thank Kyle and all of the members for what they put into it!
Peace and blessings;
Brett
woohoo that’s quite a list of instruments good for you do you have any pictures of your selfmade ones?
Thanks for asking, B H!
Here’s a couple of pix of my 3-string bass and my CBG pseudo-shamisen. I’m working on a shami with a skin head, rather than a thin wooden one. I think I learned a bit from making the last one (I hope!) Both instruments have red oak necks and pegboxes, and bone nuts and tailpieces. I haven’t learned how to tie a noe, yet. The body of the pseudo-shami is pine, with “skins” of 4.5mm birch ply. I make piezo pickups from rewired buzzers, but I have a rod piezo and preamp ready for my next instrument.
Peace and blessings;
Brett
yeah . . . nice! I will send you a message once the links on my profile page are working again so you can check out my creations too . . . as for my next one I am mainly held back cause I want real good wood and two sources have fallen through so far and nothing around locally I want some pieces of nice instrument grade koa acacia . . .