Young Craftsman: Yuichi, Who is Fascinated by the Sound of an Amazing Traditional Instrument.

[@jasonsummit1885]

Had to watch how the koto is made since a person from my church is giving me one. I'm picking it up today, going to be interesting to teach myself to play another instrument.😁

[@davethesamuraichef5205]

Excellent work

[@daiiahi3403]

Excellent skilled craftsmen. The young ones only want to play the guitar now days. These heritage instruments have to be kept alive.

[@michelangelioni]

WONDERFUL! Thanks for the upload!

[@leisongivangomo5656]

Beautiful instrument! Well done

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

Glad you like it!

[@michaelpage7691]

It's really soothing and informative listening to your voice explaining the different stages these artisans do to produce a magnificent musical instrument. Thank you. 👍🏻🇦🇺😁

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

My pleasure!

[@oneshotme]

That was neat!!! Enjoyed and gave a Thumbs Up as always

[@laurencelance586]

Impressive!

[@pekatot7723]

Beautifull

[@Ucceah]

i adore the fact he's using a hand pumped gasoline torch for yaki sugi.

[@yeelawnmask6771]

amazing

[@alexanderguestguitars1173]

Would love to know the purpose of the herringbone carving on the inside of the resonating box

[@christofix]

I'm amazed about you woodworking skills. I wish i was that good

[@Ucceah]

practice every day! ~

[@athenazoey5093]

it takes the Era for to have this skill of craftsmanship.. it passes down generations thru generations

[@americosouza6199]

uma obra de arte

[@jasonsummit1885]

It's definitely different how the strings are textured and all the same diameter, it's just where you place the bridges as to how it is tuned. Hard to get the hang of using the hard picks instead of my fingertips.

[@cojones8518]

Didn't know they made those out of Paulownia. There's some growing around where I live. I always thought it was a trash wood, to soft. Never thought of it as a tone wood.

[@Ucceah]

well dried paulownia is pure joy to work with, and makes an excellent tone wood. it almost rings like a hardwood (and technically it is one), weighs barely more than balsa, but is almost as strong as spruce or pine. but leave the trees be and enjoy theyr beauty. (or plant some more!)

[@zhehaowang6854]

It is one of the most widely used tonewood for Chinese instruments: Guqin, Guzheng, Pipa, all use Paulowina

[@Traderjoe]

Is it dried before it is shaped, or after?

[@angelhelp]

What a pity someone thought this video's narration needed guitars and later, piano, finally graduating to flute in the background. At least use music from the instrument being described (although narration never requires background music).

[@nealbeard1]

Turn the sound off and watch with subtitles. I watched it listening to Charlie Parker.

[@gabor1984]

What was that at 7:53?

[@truongngo3418]

👌 😎

[@doomdouck]

can you tell me the name of the short tune played at the beginning

[@alphascorpii185]

Obao !! I don't know the title, but it was used in an advert for Obao, a bath bubble product.

[@MrKozure]

It's a famous japanese traditional song, Sakura(cherry blossoms) This is the intrumental, kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3yYYn-Yoch4hdk Vocal only kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4Ctn3iqaJ5kpLc

[@alexds8452]

it's simply called 'Sakura, sakura' & is an extremely common song. So much so, that it's even played by the traffic signals for pedestrians in some places around Japan. & naturally, it's literally the 1st song everyone learns on the o'Koto! & I still love it. ^_^

[@nachohats209]

siempre fue un instrumento q e querido probar en técnica ya toco en sanshi XD aca en argentina pero el coto es imposible

[@JeghedderThomas]

Fashinating to watch such skilled craftsmen in action - I whould however really wish to hear the natural sounds of the work-process instead of the boring muzak which we're given. This is the only weakness of your videos - which otherwise fire my imagination and joy at watching timeless crafts.

[@brettmayfield426]

Great video. i've been burning a bit of wood lately. really pleased with it. what is it they're rubbing on at 7.53? made it look incredible>

[@bluebalute]

I think it's fine sawdust to fill the pores. I think it's what makes the grain take on that extra highlighting you see a little later in a closeup.

[@karenmitchell3947]

bluebalute I agree. The sawdust also burnishes the Wood, giving it a nice sheen.

[@ymhr312]

Rice bran, not sawdust.

[@brettmayfield426]

Hiroyuki@Niigata thank you. I never would have guessed that. All the best. Hope you’re ok.

[@ymhr312]

Rice bran (kome nuka in Japanese) has several uses in Japan. For example, you can remove aku (harshness) from takenoko (bamboo shoots) by boiling them in a pot of water with some rice bran. You can also make nuka zuke (rice bran bed pickles) by placing vegetables in rice bran pickling bed.

[@cahiteroz1921]

Muhteşem.

[@blacksmith67]

Why, when giving us information on a beautiful musical instrument would you have generic filler music on this video? Love the info but not a fan of the missed opportunity...

[@chrisp755]

copyright infringement

[@gustavojansivu2412]

Varför blev jag bortrövad ? Todeska

[@athenazoey5093]

Wano kuni

[@franciscosalamanca8174]

🇪🇨👍🏻

[@esejsnake1503]

Can't you at least use japanese music? Maybe traditional japanese music? The elevator music you're using is killing me. Such great videos should have good quality music.

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

That'd be good, Thanks for setting me straight!

[@esejsnake1503]

@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts I really love your videos, that's why I wrote so sharply. Thank you for answering.

[@andrefleuriet2391]

Too bad it's not in French !...😢

[@walshy2116]

That music just sounds like she’s making random weird sounds and hitting random notes. I definitely am not a fan.

[@alexds8452]

Well, as it's a 13 string instrument, it complies to Eastern musical scale as opposed to the western 8. So, it might sound random to western trained ears, but it's in fact a very popular old song. Try listening to some Koto sounds, if you're interested to learn more about the musical scale; it's rather calming, actually!