抄録
In the shamisen, Japanese traditional instrument, there is a mechanism to put out the peculiar tone that is called "SAWARI" This mechanism is the feature one in musical instruments in the world However, there are still a lot of uncertain points of the mechanism In this research, it aims to support it to clarify the feature of the shamisen sound, and to emit the shamisen sound assumed to be an ideal As the method, the sound of shamisen is recorded and frequency analysis of "SAWARI" is conducted, and it experiments modal analysis of shamisen's body and skin Further, body's cavernous resonance is recoreded and analyzes using FEM