Sanukitophon

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Sanukitophon in the Japanese-German Center Berlin

A sanukitophone is a lithophone from Japan, which is made by Hitoshi Maeda from the rock sanukitoid (a granite ). Hitoshi Maeda was born in the Japanese prefecture of Kagawa (Sanuki) in 1929 and received his PhD in petrology from Washington State University . Based on his studies of 20,000-year-old artifacts from China, he produced several hundred lithophones.

Classification according to forms

Xylophone shape
Instruments with about two octaves with twelve semitone steps each, which look like xylophones or marimbaphones
Bell, angle or rectangle shape
These instruments are hung on a frame. The range is about two octaves. The shape of the rectangular instrument is reminiscent of the old East Asian court instruments bianqing , fangxiang ( 方 響  /  方 响 , fāngxiǎng , fang hsiang ), hōkyō ( Japanese 方 響 ) and banghyang ( kor.  방향 , Hanja   方 響 ).
Field stone shape
Instruments with only trimmed field stones. The sound is very complex and has no intervals or pitches.
Disc shape
An instrument made from gong- like plates.

swell

  • Kenshi Kishi, Hitoshi Maeda, Manasori Sugai: A new percussion instrument "hokyo" made by Sanukite . In: Acoustical Science and Technology . 22, No. 3, August, pp. 209-218. doi : 10.1250 / ast.22.209 .
  • Explanatory text by the composer Maki Ishii on the Sanukitophone in the Japanese-German Center Berlin (1991); Found June 19, 2010

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