Asian Mix — Future Downtempo Beats — Street Chill Music

Many producers nowadays use samples from traditional Asian music. These tunes gave a great melodic spice to a song, and are pleasurable to listen to. What is the Japanese instrument Koto and how it is played in the modern days? A koto is a type of zither. Ok, so what’s a zither? A zither is an instrument that has the stings that are parallel to the soundbox (not perpendicular like a harp) and the start and end of the strings are over or within the bounds of the soundbox (the if they don’t have a neck - unless that neck is hollow and that hollow space is acoustically coupled to the soundbox.) It’s not a harp, because harp strings are perpendicular to the soundbox. It’s not a lute-like thing (that also includes things like guitars or violins and the like) because it has no neck. The closest thing that most people have seen in the US is an autoharp (which also isn’t a harp for the same reasons). But both kinds of dulcimers are also related. The normal koto is about 6″ long and contains 13 strings