AGP #245 - 氷知られています (Kankara Sanshin)Scale: 800mm / 31½inchesStrings : Small Sanxian : Steel / Copper & NylonTuning: G / D / G /All timber is recycled, the Neck I think is Tallowwood, the Tunings Pegs and Nut are I think Spotted Gum, the Bridge is an Ebony Piano Key, the String Tailpiece is a scrap of Poplar, and the Headstock Wings are Spruce Pine.Couldn’t find much info on dimensions etc, for this build, so just winged it, found out the scale length is somewhere between 600mm and 1000mm so went halfway with 800mm.
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"Thanks Primitive Acoustics", don't know if it will ever be played properly (by me anyway!), had a look on Utube etc. for how to play lessons etc., there were a few, but all in Japanese, so it will probably join my list of "Instruments I Built But Can't Play" :-(
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"Thanks James O Lunsford", Ya right, I'll get there with a bit of perseverance ;-)
Neat O Build there AGP # You can play it Man with 1, 4, 5 Chords Ya can play any Thing good stuff Man
"Thanks Primitive Acoustics", don't know if it will ever be played properly (by me anyway!), had a look on Utube etc. for how to play lessons etc., there were a few, but all in Japanese, so it will probably join my list of "Instruments I Built But Can't Play" :-(
"Thanks wes carl", Nice Pun :-)