Shōko_(instrument)

<i>Shōko</i> (instrument)

Shōko (instrument)

Add article description

This article is about the gong instrument. For the drum instrument, see tsuzumi.

The shōko (鉦鼓) is a small bronze gong, struck with two horn beaters, used in gagaku.[1][2] It is suspended in a vertical frame and comes in three sizes. In Buddhist music and Japanese folk music the instrument is called kane/shō.

Shōko

References

  1. [1]
    Piggott, Francis Taylor (1909). The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan. Kelly & Walsh. pp. 172–173. ISBN 978-0-306-70160-3.
  2. [2]
    The East. East Publications. 1980. p. 67.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Shōko_(instrument), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.