My love affair with the Shamisen

I fell in love with the shamisen somewhere in my dreams. In 2014, I visited my Grandmother in Osaka and she helped me to buy my first instrument, a lovely mid-range Nagauta shamisen. I brought it back to Berlin and began learning ferociously, 

The notes fell under my fingers easily, perhaps thanks to my training in violin, and its sound has pierced my heart.

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