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Tune Your Sanshin with Sankichi-kun

By Richie

Looks like one of our visitors found Karakui through a search with the keywords “okinawan sanshin tuning”. I could possibly upload an mp3 (or m4a) file of my tuning of a sanshin but it’ll be a whole lot cooler to download this wonderful freeware app called “Sankichi-kun” (available versions for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows). I’m a Mac user so I can tell you guys that it works awesomely on a G4 Mac (I assume it’ll work just as well on an Intel Mac too), but PC guys are on your own (sorry).

This entry was posted on 2007/03/09 at 9:52 PM and is filed under Sanshin, Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Tune Your Sanshin with Sankichi-kun”

  1. Travis Says:
    2007/03/18 at 4:00 PM

    An english version of this program would be cool. I could really use a tool like this.

  2. Richie Says:
    2007/03/24 at 9:12 PM

    I was thinking of putting up an English “guide” to it…

  3. Searched « Karakui Says:
    2007/03/31 at 11:57 AM

    [...] are still a lot of you who are finding us through a search for learning to tune your sanshin. We posted an entry about a neat little freeware app called Sankichi-kun at the beginning of the month. The only thing [...]

  4. mrcookingpt Says:
    2007/08/03 at 7:18 PM

    I just got my sanshin and It came with a kit but I am not very good at reading kanji are there any websites that I might use to learn about the basics in english.

  5. Richie Says:
    2007/08/04 at 1:04 PM

    Mrcookingpt: Websites in English about anything Okinawa is very limited but it’s something that we’re definitely working on. May it be uploading instructional clips to YouTube or creating a Podcast in the future (yup, I wish I could do this full-time). If you have any questions about the sanshin, feel free to email me at karakuipress [at] gmail [dot] com. ;)

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