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Sanshin app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 6848 ratings )
Music Entertainment
Developer: CRIMSON TECHNOLOGY, Inc
1.99 USD
Current version: 2.5, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 03 Sep 2009
App size: 11.18 Mb

The "Sanshin" (Sanxian,三線) is a traditional and very popular musical instrument in Okinawa.
Okinawa is beautiful islands located on the end of the southwest of Japan.
The Sanshin is indispensable to life of people in Okinawa with traditional "Shima-Uta" that means song of islands.

The Sanshin looks like the shamisen that is the tradition musical instrument of Japan similarly. But, the performance method of the Sanshin is farther simpler than the Shamisen,and is friendly musical instrument.

In this application, proper finger positions will be displayed on the screen with Kanji.
These also correspond to scores that is called "Kun-Kun-Shi" written in Kanji.

We hope you will enjoy playing the Sanshin
even if you have not played a Sanshin.

Please try and enjoy it!

Latest reviews of Sanshin app for iPhone and iPad

音鳴らず
iPod touchのver.4でインストールしたものの、反応無し。一番下のフレットだけ鳴るが、他は反応不良。アップデートによる改善は…今のところ無し。
Nice little instrument
No fancy bells or whistles- just your basic interesting little iPhone instrument. I really like apps like this, and this is a good one. Its well done, fairly nice graphics, good sound and quite playable. I hope they continue to develop this and people will give it a try- definitely worth having in your arsenal if you like this sort of thing.
Mediocre Sound Quality
I was so excited to finally find the Sanshin (Okinawa Guitar) for the iphoneitouch. With my passion and love for Okinawa and music, I immediately downloaded it. After playing with it for a while, I was disappointed in the sound quality of the different pitch classes. It sounds rather electronic and computer generated at times. I was hoping for more authentic sounding notes. I also with there were a couple songs built in that you could play along with. I look forward to updates to this app that will improve the sound quality and add more features that help one get started to play some Okinawa songs.
Better than expected!
Without a doubt the best $1.99 Sanshin available! Honchoshi, sansage, niage, ichiniage, its all there, in whatever key you want. I tried the other i-Sanshin out there and was disappointed, this one did not particularly impress me until I figured out how to get it in chromatic mode. Chromatic mode allows you to play any note you want, instead of the auto setting where the app guesses what note you intended on playing. Sound quality is great for the price, some keys do sound a little synthed, while others sound fine. I find this instrument very playable and suitable for practice and fun. Its a super value when you consider the price of buying a new Sanshin, and all that this app offers!
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