Greetings again from World Music Safari. My uncle recently went to a pawn shop looking for instruments and found this gem of a mystery. Right off the bat I kinda figured it was from Japan; the writing on the outside being a dead give-away. But once open, I was surprised to see a dulcimer type instrument with buttons in a keyboard style layout a bit like an autoharp. If you grew up in the 70's, you've been tortured with an autoharp before. So, what is it? I did some internet sleuthing in real-time in the video and I found out! Searching for the term "Japanese autoharp"' turned up what looked to be called a Nagoya right away. And with that term was another name for the instrument, Taishōgoto. So armed with this knowledge I proceeded to tune it up and play some scales, then a bit of the Raiders of the Lost Ark march, and even a bit of Thunderstruck. Oh yeah, I have to destroy a song somehow. Anyway, this thing is pretty versatile considering it'll do a chromatic scale. I see myself utilizing this in the very near future for some sort of background bump music
like No Reservations or Parts Unknown. Until next time.
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