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tonkori
The is a plucked string instrument played by the Ainu people of Hokkaidō, northern Japan and Sakhalin. It generally has five strings, which are not stopped or fretted but simply played "open". The instrument is believed to have been developed in Sakhalin. By the 1970s the instrument was practically extinct, but is experiencing a revival along with the increased interest in Ainu heritage.〔〔Takashi Ogawa. ''Traditional Music of the Ainu'' Journal of the International Folk Music Council, Vol. 13, (1961) - Notes that at publication the instrument was only found in museums〕
==Construction==
The instrument is typically constructed of a single piece of Jezo spruce approximately a metre long.〔 Its shape is traditionally said to resemble a woman's body, and the corresponding words are used for its parts. A pebble is placed within the body-cavity of the instrument, granting it a "soul". The instrument tends to measure approximately 120 cm long, 10 cm wide, and 5 cm thick.〔
The tonkori's strings are made of gut, deer tendon, or vegetable fiber. While five-string tonkori are the most frequently mentioned, they could have as few as two or as many as six strings. The strings are not tuned in order of pitch, but are instead in a reentrant tuning alternating between higher and lower strings, rising and falling by a fifths in a pentatonic scale, often a-d'-g'-c'-f'.〔 A similar style of reentrant tuning a was used by the ancient Japanese version of the koto, the ''wagon''.
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