These traditional Japanese percussion instruments are also known to keep little kids busy and happy. To make this homemade instrument you’ll need cardboard, a wooden dowl, beads, hot glue ...

Discovering the Music of Japan ... musical traditions. This 22-minute educational film explores the history, construction, and performance techniques of Japan’s three major traditional ...

barrel-shaped instruments symbolise the powerful, rhythmic and dynamic energy of Japanese percussion. They have also been a vital part of Japanese culture for millennia, as they were used to ...

and “taiko,” a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. The club began in 1995 under the Nikkei Student Association, later branching away and renaming itself Jishin Taiko in 2002. According to ...

Then the musicians trooped out bearing their instruments -- large and small old cathode-ray tube TVs crafted to resemble drums and shamisen, the three-stringed traditional Japanese musical ...