Antiquing

Today I was working again on my Shamisen. The buzzing thing (Azuma Sawari) never sounded right so I replaced the metal with wood.

In anycase, that day, our “next-block” neighbor (who owns an antique store downtown) was having a street sale. My next door neighbor (who has the fabulous site, okinawa.com) told him that I played shamisen so he came by and gave it to me! Woot! (as they say) It sure looks antique. The snake skins are ruptured one both sides so I needed to find some new skin to restretch the shamisen with. Now, as you can well imagine, giant snakes are hard to find but through a secret special source (E*cough*bay*cough*), I managed to find a nice skin!

Now, you may be saying, “Enough describing, show me a picture!” Well, I accidentally drained the batteries on our good camera so we’ll all have to wait ’till tomorrow.