Hiya ^.^ I know i’ve been a little vacant from the forum a bit, sorry ^^; Although I have now finished university and awaiting final confirmed grades.
On the other hand if your in London today stop by the Okinawa day festival at Spitalfields :3
Me and Cana are down for the day 
Hey Jamie! Long time no see! 
Cool! All I can say is, pics or it didn’t happen!
Some images
http://imgur.com/a/krxWW/
And a couple video o3o
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43871210/LINE_MOVIE_1403352308881.mp4
Oh sweet! That looks like a lot of fun!
Did Cana bring his three flavored strings?
3 flavored strings 
? Had an awesome time there! got my sanshin repaired for free too! a sanshin repairer happend to be one of the organisers. I was told he had “magic pockets” so I went up to him and asked him about the little woodblock thing on my sanshin and why it was there and then he ran off… and came back with a new karakui, uma, strings, and a bachi for me and repaired mysanshin to working order! it was a complete surpise loved it! then he told me I should come down and meet up with them more. We havent figured out what this thing is though, its only found on instruments from a long time ago~
this was taken in 1897, if you notice all the way on the left, the Sanxian player has one on his sao.
Thanks, Jamie, for the post. I did not know there was such Okinawa day in London. It’s a lot of fun.
And I have got interested in Okinawa music and practicing it by Shamisen.
I am also thinking of getting a sanxien.
Btw, Kyle, is the Kankara kit onBachido store like Okinawa sanxien? And good to play Okinawa music?