Tuning the Sanshin Shamisen

Playing/Techniques
#1

Hey people,
today has reached me my new Sanshin Shamisen. Now I watch at your crash courses. Now I wanted to tune the instrument and ask me now whether I can use the References Pitches also for the Sanshin or would be it better to be used one vocal device?

I apologise for my English. To speak in English easier falls to me than it to write. Still I hope that it is enough.

To me has also struck that the ichi-no-ito(first string) and the San-no-ito(third string) are changed. Is this Normally with the Sanshin Shamisen or should this be exchanged?

In addition I would still ask with pleasure whether I should also exchange the koma. As well as I have understood it in the crash course, advise you 8.1 mm of coma. The current one has about 10 mm.

Special regards from Germany

Jens Schwegmann

#2

I have still forgotten one. The position marks, can it transfer I this also on the Sanshin or gives there other mass(measures) I should keep?

#3

Hello Jens,
Welcome to Bachido

Tuning for sanshin and shamisen is very similar, as both use a base tuning (Honchoushi, C-F-C, B-E-B, A-D-A). The other tunings are similar too, as they only change in name. Sansagari - or Sansagi on sanshin (e.g. C-F-Bb) And Niagari or Niagi on sanshin ( C-G-C )

These are all in the tuning page. http://bachido.com/materials/tuning

Now, a question, are you playing a shamisen or a sanshin?

#4

Hi Elton,
Thanks for your answer already beforehand. Because I am new and considerable-inexperienced with the whole sepziellen things. Where the difference lies then between Shamiser and the Sanshin. I know at the moment only which I have a Sanshin Shamisen.

#5

Hi Jens. Look at this page : http://bachido.com/wiki/Styles-of-Shamisen.

#6

Hey over again,
I give sometimes a link purely from the Shamisen I have. It is a Sanshin Shamisen. I hope this more information gives you about that than I try to explain it.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Traditional-NEW-WOOD-Seed-Sanshin-Shamisen-Okinawa-Ryukyu-/221446115678?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item338f37915e

#7

This is definitely a sanshin.

#8

Okay.
The Postionsmarks are they same from the measuring on the Sanshin like with the video on the Crash course? Or are there with the Sanshin other?

#9

The positions on the sanshin are different from the shamisen, because of the difference on the length. Shamisen neck is 100cm long and sanshin is 80cm, approximately.

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