Finnaly i got my shamisen, its a nagauta shamisen, so i would ask if someone know what tipe of tuning i have to bring on to play the minyo and tsugaru pieces in the book shamisen of japan.
congratulations . . .
http://bachido.com/learn/pages/tuning
I think most songs are niagari - anyway it is the tuning I usually have on my thing and as for the book the tuning used for a song is mentioned on the notation page for each song so bachi on . . . 
I believe most tsugaru is tuned to C. Most jiuta songs are in D. I am not sure about minyo but I think C is common for that too.
Congratulations, Luca!
We used to tune our nagauta shamisen (which we used for jiuta pieces) to C in order to play it along with shakuhachi. (Not that we really knew what we were doing.) How is a standard shakuhachi following notation played with the shamisen if it’s tuned to D?
I don’t have a lot of info on the shakuhachi. However what I have is that for yachiyojishi the shamisen is tuned DGD and the notation I have is the shakuhachi plays re (G). For kurokami the shamisen is tuned DGC and the shakuhachi plays in G.
Ooooh, I see! I guess I’ve always been thinking of the san no ito’s C.
Oh ok thank you!!