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Here is a list of traditional Japanese musical instruments.
•Hichiriki
•Hocchiku
•Horagai
•Hyōshigi
•Ichigenkin
•Ikko
•Junanagen
•Kakko
•Kugo
•Kokyū
•Komabue
•Kagura suzu
•Kane
•Nohkan
•Ryūteki
•Shakuhachi
•Shamisen
•Shō
•Tsuchibue
•Tonkori
This was all about traditional Japanese musical instruments. Some of these instruments like the Koto, Shamisen and Shakuhachi are still played extensively in Japanese music. However, there are only a few musicians who still play Japanese musical instruments like Kokyū and Ikko.

We all know how hard it is to learn our lines, the lack of time given to memorize the lines, makes things more difficult for us. Here are some tips that you can use to make things easy for you.

Believe in Yourself
Many people just lose their spirit if they find a long monologue in their script. They just develop a prejudice that the lines cannot be memorized by them, this hinders all their attempts to learn the lines. So, it is very important to have faith in your potential. Believe that you can achieve everything you want, if you try. The belief in your abilities will keep you motivated, even when you feel that it is impossible to learn your lines.

Character Key
Before you start your attempts to memorize, you should try and understand your character in the play. Understand what the character demands from you, and comprehend the emotions that you need to portray. This will help you understand your lines better, which will help you memorize the lines quickly.

Loud and Clear
When you rehearse your lines, make sure that you say the words aloud. When you do this, you are aiding your memory. Your pronunciations should be clear, and you are bound to realize the flaws in your pronunciation only when you say it loud. This technique will help your mind register the lines speedily.

Picture Perfect
I agree that everyone does not have a photographic memory, but visualizing the scene when you are rehearsing at home, will surely make memorizing faster. In addition to this, you can use inanimate objects to represent other characters. You can also use pictures as a prompt when you practice, then eventually you will remember all your lines by just imagining the pictures in the appropriate sequence.

Mirror Magic
Here is one of the oldest tricks to assist the pace of memorizing the lines; use a mirror! When you practice your lines, just look into the mirror (be loud and clear), this gives you a feeling that you have company, and will reduce the probability of getting bored quickly. Thus, you can maximize the time for practicing in a day, thereby reducing the days required to memorize the lines. Seeing yourself emote, can be quite amusing too!

Negative space is so called because it is the exact opposite of a balanced image, which may include a subject such as an illustration with a person and text, and a variety of other shapes. All the space around and among these items is negative space. It is against negative space that a positive space can show itself and have an impact on the viewer. Using negative space while maintaining a balance is a challenge for a graphic designer or even a photographer, and knowing how much negative space is enough is important for such creative professionals. So what does negative space do for a design? Let’s find out.

A Symbol of Extravagance
Studies show that the use of negative space in a design gives an appearance of extravagance and sophistication. When you see a high-end moisturizer placed against a white or light background with only its container design being the colored element, don’t you want to just pick it up and use it? Doesn’t it give you a sense of luxury and try to tell you that only a selected few can afford it and use it? This is how powerful negative space is.

Free Flow
Negative space also allows the viewer to view a design clearly. As it allows the design to stand out, a viewer is not obstructed by a multitude of elements to distract him, and the real object of focus remains the real object of focus. This makes a difference to the way a design is perceived and is largely appreciated by the consumer resulting in an eventual positive response.

Allows a Reader to Read
In the context of web design, negative space does a great deal by allowing the reader to read the content on the website clearly. This is an aspect similar to that mentioned of free flow above. Increasing the amount of white space between lines of text tends to enhance a reader’s ability to read the page clearly. Expect people to come back for more if along with the design there is also great content for the reader.

Felt is a kind of cloth that is made without weaving fibers – it is simply made by pressing wool fibers together into sheets. Felt is very easy to model or mold into different shapes. Felt finger puppets are about as easy to make as paper finger puppets – the advantage being they are more durable. Using cloth gives you the opportunity to stitch hands, legs, ears, and tails (in case of animal finger puppets) onto your finger puppet. They definitely add more dimension to your finger puppet than can be achieved in paper finger puppets. Stitching also means you can experiment with embroidering details onto the puppet. So your finger puppet bunny can well be clad in a dinner jacket!

Crochet Finger Puppet Pattern

If you are such a crochet enthusiast that everybody in the family already has a sweater or a pair of gloves or a muffler knit by you and you are running out of things to knit, you could branch out into making crochet finger puppets! There are many interesting crochet finger puppet patterns that you can try out. The best thing about crochet finger puppets is that they won’t break or tear easily – like paper finger puppets may. Plus you can wash them and keep them clean – since they are made of wool anyway! Crochet finger puppets however need a little more practice and patience than paper and felt finger puppets. You first need to master the art of crochet and then try making crochet finger puppets.

Accessorizing Your Finger Puppet
1.Beads: Suitable beads in place of eyes can help you add a three-dimensional effect to the puppet and make it look more appealing and interesting. They can help you give a nerdy or geeky appearance to the puppet. You can even stick small glasses made out of wire onto the puppet to complete the look!
2.Wood: The body of your puppet can be made of wood if you’d like. However, that can make the puppet a little stiff! It will restrict movement. Instead you can have just a wooden face. It will help you create the perfect expressionless guy! You can draw droopy half-closed eyes on the puppet and make it the monotonous or sleepy guy! The key here is the fact that you cannot add too many details because it is a wooden face.
3.Spring or Wire: Small pieces of spring can be wrapped with wool to give your puppet noodle-hair! You can even use a bent wire to give your puppet dog a curved tail. Plastic wire pieces can add details like glasses to your puppet, as described earlier. Another interesting way to use spring in your finger puppet can be to make the entire puppet out of spring! Just wrap the spring around your finger and prop a head on top of the spring, and you can have a squiggly, bouncing finger puppet!

The Definition…
In an exploratory essay, you need to give in a lot of opinions and point of views, to explain and evaluate the subject chosen. The more opinions and point of views are included in an exploratory essay, the more complete and good it is considered. One peculiarity of exploratory essays is that you need to only investigate, inquire about and explore the chosen topic. You do not have to argue for or against the topic you are writing on. Due to this very reason, many people find writing an exploratory essay very difficult. On the brighter side, writing such an essay gives you full liberty to explore a topic, so if you want to gain an in depth knowledge on something, without getting biased about it, exploratory essays are your answer!

The Topic…
To write an exploratory essay, the first thing that you need to do is to find a problem that you want to investigate. Ideally, it should be something that you are familiar with and feel strongly about, as only then you would be able to offer opinions and solutions on the same. Some of the possible topics for an exploratory essay can be – “Is large scale immigration good for United States?” “Low voter count”, “Racial Discrimination in United States”, “Economic Downturn”, etc. You need not always take topics of economic and political relevance though. Social topics can be explored with equal elan while writing an exploratory essay.

The Introduction…
Unlike other types of essays, an exploratory essay does not have a thesis statement. It is written in such a way that the author’s thoughts and opinions on the subject at hand are presented throughout the essay to the readers. The introduction of an exploratory essay should be very interesting. It should bring forth the problem that is being investigated in the essay, in a very lucid, appealing manner, so much so that the readers feel compelled to read the entire essay!

The Body…
During the course of the essay i.e. while writing the body, certain questions are raised with regards to the topic and the same are analyzed and answered, by the writer. The writer presents various solutions too, for the problem at hand and analyzes each one of them, till the conclusion of the essay, where the most viable ones are presented. Let’s take an example here. If the chosen topic is gender discrimination, the various ideas and solutions to combat the same, that can be explored in the essay are – Where does gender discrimination stem from? How to combat the same? (A) By spreading awareness and educating people on it.(B) By giving women equal opportunities in terms of education, experience and exposure, right from the childhood. Can gender discrimination ever be overcome? etc. Likewise, all such ideas are explored and looked into. Whatever solutions are suggested, their pros and cons are discussed in the body of the essay. You can even add some real life examples, while discussing each of the solutions. Creating hypothetical situations, wherein you write about what could possibly happen if a particular solution is opted for, will make the essay even more interesting. You may further go to how to write a good essay.