Archive for August, 2008

Basic Bass Guitar Information

A base guitar is an electric string instrument that is similar with a guitar but only has four strings. These strings are the lowest 4 strings of a basic guitar. It is played by plucking, strumming or slapping the strings with a pick or with your fingers.
There are different kinds of bass guitars. Here’s a [...]

Japanese Musical Instruments

Japanese musical instruments can be categorized in various ranges of string, percussion and wind instruments.
1. String
a. Biwa: The biwa is short-necked Japanese fretted lute.
b. Koto: It is a stringed instrument derived from zither and is national musical instrument of Japan.
c. Ichigenkin: It is Japanese one-string zither.
d. Sanshin is a Japanese three-string banjo from Okinawa.
e. [...]