Gottan
The gottan (ごったん), also known as the hako shamisen ("box
Differences
The major difference between a sanshin and a gottan is that the body of a sanshin tends to be made of a hollowed wooden cavity covered with a type of membrane, whereas the whole of a gottan – body,
The gottan's musical repertoire is often light and cheerful, including many folk songs.[citation needed] Like the shamisen, it was used for door-to-door musical busking, known as kadozuke.[3]
Often the gottan is compared to the kankara sanshin, an Okinawan instrument related to the sanshin, due to its relative inexpensiveness (made from a used metal can) and ease of construction. The equivalent all-wood Okinawan instrument is the ita sanshin.[1]: 22
References
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-18137-3. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ^ Experimental Musical Instruments. Experimental Musical Instruments. 1993. p. 35. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-933947-13-6. Retrieved 6 January 2013.