We also had the opportunity to see a kokyu, a stringed instrument played offstage to express, for example, the sadness of an old man who is dying."IC012002", "2551488"
In addition to the sarangi, the typical Indian stringed instrument, she also plays other Asian instruments such as the "morin huur" of Mongolia and the "erhu" of China. One day, while she was playing one of those instruments, someone observed her hands and told her, "That's a very rare playing technique once used in playing an ethnic instrument of Poland."〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2001年1月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT171004", "2358953"
Sokyoku is the general name for music played on the koto (a kind of harp). This musical form, which developed in the second half of the sixteenth century, later came to be played in concert with the shamisen (three-stringed lute), the kokyu (Chinese fiddle), and the shakuhachi (five-holed bamboo clarinet)."NIPO-277", "2452028"