Suzuki Nobara

via this auction

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"NOBARA(means wild rose) is extremely rare and one of the most strange japanese electronic musical instruments
it was originally made for playing japanese traditinal music and made by SUZUKI(home of omnichord,tronichord)
but this is most strange & bizzare instrument SUZUKI ever made...

no need to search NOBARA on google because there are no info on the net

first of all it's very beautifull!
built in exotic shape designed dark wine red case
with strange shape 37 key keyboard(look like key of vintage computer) and 2 string bridge and 3 assignable drum pads
it has 16 sounds(including exotic japanese traditional instruments like koto,shamisen,shakuhachi etc)
and 21 exotic percussions
plus you can access more hidden sounds by using MIDI prgramm No. from external midi keyboard(I don't know why) internal speaker,audio output,headphone output and surprisingly it has MIDI IN & OUT!

you can play NOBARA by keyboard(polyphonic) or 2 string bridge(monophonic) and 3 drum pad

this unique 2 string brdge can play by usual guitar pick
hold one key of the keyboards and play 2 string bridge by pick like guitar
2 string brdge is monophonic, it sumilate taisho koto(japanese peacock harp)
japanese harp musician often uses fast trill play so it needs 2 strings with same sounds
and there is metall mute plate to mute sound decay by finger touch
string is touch sensible with verocity and totally electronic device,
it's not just simply electrical amplified like usual electric guitar
NOBARA has MIDI so you can play another MIDI synth by this 2 string brdge!
it's very effective for guitar,bass kind of string instruments
it's like guitar synthesizer feeling

3 drum pad is also touch sensitive and can playing by your fingers
assign drum sounds to pad is very easy,just hold one key and hit the one pad in drum mode
of course drum sounds consists of many exotic japanese traditional percussions
it including some ordinary drum sounds,especially bass and snare is cool electronic sound like KRAFTWERK's drum sound of course in drum mode you can play all of them on keybord

NOBARA's sounds are hi quality,exotic and strange!,very unique original sounds
and playing by 2 string bridge wiyh pick is very funny
NOBARA has MIDI so you can play these exotic sounds from your sequencer or another MIDI device

NOBARA was very expensive and made very limited quantities those days
so i'ts very hard to find even in Japan these days
this is your first and last chance to get this bizzare exotic gem!"

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