Shamisen Player

Virtual Shamisen of functional traditional retro design.

Shamisen Player features a simple virtual sao (the neck of a shamisen) covering a useful first octave of the actual instrument's range on each of the strings.

Of course authentic sounds are used that were recorded from a real shamisen.

All of the playable notes are obviously numbered (including 3#) corresponding to standard finger positions and shamisen tabulature notation.

One of the common shamisen tunings called niagari is used in this app.

Of course I hope you will be enjoying some virtual shamisen fun with this application.

Check out also the Shamisen Player Pro extended version of this app which features all of the 3 common shamisen tunings and some bonus features.

Go Play . . . :)

(Unfortunately this older and smaller version cannot be updated anymore for technical reasons and includes a weblink that is not functional anymore)