samisen

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sam·i·sen

S0054600 (săm′ĭ-sĕn′)n. Variant of shamisen.

samisen

(ˈsæmɪˌsɛn) n (Instruments) a variant of shamisen

sam•i•sen

(ˈsæm əˌsɛn)

n. a guitarlike Japanese musical instrument having an extremely long neck and three strings. [1610–20; < Japanese « Chinese sānxia three-string banjo]

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samisen - a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrumshamisenstringed instrument - a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound

Samisen

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Samisen

a Japanese stringed instrument played by plucking. The samisen consists of a body, the wooden sides of which are covered on the top and bottom with skin, a wooden neck and fingerboard, and three strings; the body has no sound holes. The strings are tuned in a fourth and a fifth, in two fourths, or in two fifths. The sound is produced by means of a large, shovel-shaped plectrum, used to strike not only the strings at the point where the neck joins the body but also the belly of the instrument. The chosen and kirisen are variants of the samisen.

samisen

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Related to samisen: shamisen, numbats

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Synonyms for samisen

noun a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox

Synonyms

shamisen

Related Words

stringed instrument

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