Whoooooaaaaa

[madshutterbug]

I do not, often, post links to items found on, say, YouTube. Not often.

Once, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I played in the Current Middle Ages of the Society for Creative Anachronism. I played a Far Eastern Oriental fellow, who would be quite familiar with the instrument featured in this piece. And I hear that fellow saying in my head the subject line above....

http://youtu.be/NfOHjeI-Bns

Comments

[stardreamer]

1) What's the name of the instrument?

2) When and where were you doing SCA stuff? I spent a year in FL back around 1977-78, and I remember that there were a lot of Eastern Asian personae; I'm wondering if we might have met at the time.

[cmcmck]

Isn't that a chamisen?

And wow!

[madshutterbug]

It is a koto.