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Fabio Rambelli holds an odd relic in his hands. It’s a sho, an ancient reed instrument played in Gagaku, the music of Japan’s Imperial Palace. It looks a bit like someone lashed a couple of pan pipes ...

In a beautiful teahouse setting the historical background and current social role of three major Japanese instruments the koto the shamisen and the shakuhachi are discussed Includes traditional ...

How Japanese ingenuity transformed Western music from within. Tina Weymouth and David Byrne of Talking Heads, performing in front of a Roland Jazz Chorus amplifier in 1980.Credit...Gie Knaeps/Getty ...