Shamisen

[Warr]

Shamisen

Item Slots Taken: 10 Slots

Effect: Allows the user to play music, and allows a ninja capable of using sound ninjutsu to use Shamisen as a tool to use sound ninjutsu.

Description: A shamisen is similar in length to a guitar, but its neck is much slimmer and it lacks any frets. It's body is a drum-like rectangular body, -known as the dō-, is covered front and back, like a banjo would be, and amplifies the sound of the strings. The typical covering is often dog or cat skin, but in the past a special type of paper was used. It is considered a respectable legend by many Shamisen admirer's that the best Shamisen the position of the cat's nipples can still be seen.

It has three strings, made in traditional times of Silk, though also of Nylon in recent days. The lowest passes over a small hump at the "nut" end so that it buzzes, creating a characteristic sound known as sawari (somewhat reminiscent of the "buzzing" of a sitar, which is called jawari). The upper part of the dō is almost always protected by a cover known as a dō kake, and players often wear a little band of cloth on their left hand to facilitate sliding up and down the neck. This band is known as a yubikake. There may also be a cover on the head of the instrument, known as a tenjin.

In most genres the shamisen is played with a large weighted plectrum called a bachi, which was traditionally made with ivory or tortoise shell but which now is usually wooden, and which is in the shape likened to a ginkgo leaf. The sound of a shamisen is similar in some respects to that of the American banjo, in that the drum-like skin-covered body, known as a dō, amplifies the sound of the strings. As in the clawhammer style of American banjo playing, the bachi is often used to strike both string and skin, creating a highly percussive sound.

In kouta (小唄; literally "short song") and occasionally in other genres the shamisen is plucked with the fingers.

(Most of it was rewritten from Wikipedia's entry, but I got tired of rewriting it. So everything after the strings is ripped.)

Link to an Image of one being played.

Cost: $5

Edited August 15, 2008 by Warr

[Hardcore Skittlez]

$50, works the same as an air pressure device for most intents and purposes, so, it'd cost the same.

[Nagori]

But doesn't the Air Pressure device give you some bonuses when using Sound Jutsu? Technically, since there aren't any apparent bonuses to this weapon statistically, couldn't the cost simply be $5?

[Azure]

All this seems to be is an item with which you're able to hold while still using sound jutsu. Like buying a glove with no special bonuses that can be used in conjunction with Taijutsu. I'd just say $5 unless there are actual bonuses.

[Warr]

$5 it is. That's the original price I was going to give it, but didn't know if someone'd go 'omg you can channel sound ninjutsu through this!'

[Warr]

Bumper.

[Kouta]

pervert part II

[Eechi-go]

Raz is better at it:.