Everybody wish a Happy Birthday to the shamisen legend Hiromitsu Agatsuma !! Enjoy his chords in "Higher Ground'' Song Around The World. Press play! https://www.playingforchange.com/videos/higher-ground-2020-song-around-the-world #greatsoundiseverywhere | Playing For Change

4.7K views · 433 reactions | Shamisen players practice for the upcoming event on weekend 殺 @jjwalsh | Japan in my eyes | Facebook

145K views · 2.9K reactions | Feel the beat with these incredible Tsugaru shamisen performers! Thanks to Shamisen in Tokyo and Kiki for the video: https://www.youtube.com/user/NakaTKY https://kiki.gyided.com/ | Visit Japan International | Facebook

The Japanese shamisen looks like a guitar but is played more like a drum. The player pounds on the three strings with a giant pick so rapidly that the strings break as often as every day to every week 😡🎸!! Its history is as rock as the sound it makes. A Chinese stringed instrument was introduced to the Ryukyu Kingdom (what is now Okinawa) in the 14th century, and then was brought over to mainland Japan on a trade ship. The early shamisen was taken up by blind musicians at first. They would go

El teórico de los antiguos astronautas, David Childress, viaja a un remoto pueblo montañoso en Colombia que ha desconcertado a la comunidad científica durante décadas. Acompañado de un historiador hindú, visita un parque arqueológico hogar de más de 1.500 estatuas megalíticas de origen desconocido. Childress sospecha una conexión con los olmecas. Es hora de investigar. 📺 Todo esto y más en tu pantalla de History #AlienígenasAncestrales | HISTORY

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