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How to use samisen in a sentence

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It is most effective when traditional instruments, such as the samisen, are used.
Special students, myself included, dressed in matsuri coats and played the large taiko drums, while others placed samisen and fue for the crowds.
She turned her head slightly and noticed a samisen propped up against one corner of the room.
The essential difference between them and the samisen melody is that they do not seem aurally to have the same first beat.
The violin and the Indonesian rebab are bowed lutes, and the Japanese samisen and the Western guitar are plucked lutes.
So they left the company of the light and music of the Tea House and samisen and trudged back into the darker, quieter, and somehow muddier streets that lead from the town.
It has been noted that certain styles of samisen music had been able to create concert repertoires disconnected from dance or party accompaniment.
The highly formal tradition of Japanese Nō drama incorporates music as an integral feature, usually performed by flute, a variety of stringed instrument called the samisen, drums, and singers.
The standard instrumentation today consists of a koto player who also sings, along with performers on a three-stringed plucked samisen lute and an end-blown shakuhachi flute.
The patterns of that style follow closely the rhythm of the samisen part.
Examples from Classical Literature
Beyond an awkward touch on samisen, mainly due to her own practice, she was a moor girl, a very rustic.
While he feasted ten little goldfish danced, and just behind the goldfish ten carp made sweet music on the koto and samisen.
Still the samisen tinkled, and still the voice sounded sweet and low and unspeakably pathetic in the apartment.
One morning Sawaichi got out his samisen, and striking some chords, began to play.
The street of the geisha is full of music, for they play the samisen there all day long.
Sawaichi was a honest, good-natured fellow, who earned a bare living by giving lessons on the koto and samisen.
The performance will be accompanied by samisen music, composed and performed by Yumiko Tanaka.
And you could not play the samisen because I was in your arms.
She played the samisen, the kotto, the Biwa, and the small hand-drum.
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