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Keep your shamisen primed and ready for action!
Stretching a skin on a shamisen
It happens to everyone. You’ll hear a *Pop!* from the other room while you’re making yourself a sandwich. You walk in to find your shamisen with a rough tear along the skin, rendering it unplayable unless you are instrumentally lip-syncing. Getting your shamisen skinned in Japan in very costly, but it can be done yourself!