Seventeen strings

Japanese: 十七弦 - じゅうしちげん

A Japanese musical instrument. It is also written as "Juushichigen." A 17-stringed koto invented by Miyagi Michio at the end of the Taisho period. It is used especially to play the bass parts in shin-so music. It is the same shape as a normal koto, but it is larger. There are two types, the large 17-stringed koto (approximately 2.45m long) and the small 17-stringed koto (approximately 2.1m long), and the range of the large 17-stringed koto is "Ha to 2-point Ho" and the small 17-stringed koto is "He to 2-point He". The first piece to use the large 17-stringed koto was "Otogi no Odori," and even today, only the large 17-stringed koto is often used.

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Japanese:

日本の楽器。「十七絃」とも書く。大正末期に宮城道雄が考案した 17弦の箏。特に新箏曲で低音部を奏するために用いる。形は普通の箏と同じであるが大きい。大十七弦 (長さ約 2.45m) と小十七弦 (長さ約 2.1m) の2種あり，音域は大十七弦が「は～2点ホ」，小十七弦が「へ～2点ヘ」。大十七弦を最初に使用した曲は『落葉の踊』で今日でも大十七弦だけを用いることが多い。

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