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Those look very interesting. How do they sound?
I found these taisho kotos in a flea market in Georgetown, Ontario. The bottom one had a price tag of $65 and when I went back to buy it for my friend Steafan, the seller said that I could have two for $100, so I just couldn't say no. These are played by strumming the strings with a pick near the bridge and pressing keys to stop the strings on the fretboard below the cover.The white keys are se up like a dulcimer's frets and the black keys make it chromatic. There are 4 melody strings tuned with three in the upper octave and one in the lower. There is also a bass drone string.
It's sort of a cross between a dulcimer and a typewriter.