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Has a rectangular wooden sounding box and silk strings that are plucked with the fingers
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koto
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KOTO (91.7 FM ) is a National Public Radio -affiliated radio station licensed to Telluride, Colorado , USA. The station is currently owned by San Miguel Educational Fund.
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n. (context musical instruments English) a Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle ...
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n. Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding box and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers
Usage examples of koto.
The old woman from Haginochaya who still comes to tend the two graves is Shigizawa Teru, a high-ranking member of the Ikuta school of koto players.
But when I was in the second grade -- in the spring, when the double globeflowers at the mouth of the waterfall were in full bloom -- I came home from school one day and was startled to hear the sound of a koto from the inner room.
From the insignia on his police jumpsuit, he clearly outranked Burns and Koto by a number of grades.
Hidemi's cousin from Fukuoka played the koto, and a pair of dancers performed a slow and graceful bugaku.
So when word reached the Cheboygan agent -Koto Shigari - that two Iron Masters in full battle armour were sitting tall in the saddle on the northern shore of the straits, he weighed anchor immediately.