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Mayumi Miyata (宮田まゆみ; b. Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese player of the shō, a traditional Japanese mouth organ. She is the most widely recorded and best internationally known soloist on this instrument. She is a graduate of the Kunitachi College of Music, where she majored in piano. While in school, she began studying gagaku music from Ono Tadamaro of the Imperial Household Agency. Although the shō is generally associated with Japan's ancient gagaku court music, Miyata was among the first players…
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