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shakuhachis

shakuhachis is the plural of shakuhachi.

Meaning of shakuhachi

Noun

shakuhachi (plural shakuhachis)

  1. A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale and is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.
    • Sampled shakuhachi sounds on the E-mu Emulator II were heard in the 1980s in TV ads and also appeared prominently in popular songs, as in the opening section of Peter Gabriel's 1986 “Sledgehammer,”[…]2019, W. Anthony Sheppard, Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 419

Questions about shakuhachis

What is shakuhachis the plural of?
Shakuhachis is the plural of shakuhachi.

Words near shakuhachis in the dictionary

  1. shaku
  2. shakubuku
  3. shakubukued
  4. shakudo
  5. shakuhachi
  6. shakuhachis
  7. Shakuni
  8. Shakuntala
  9. Shakur
  10. Shakurs
  11. shakus

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