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HAMADA, Takasi, Japanese ragtime guitarist
Here is the web page of HAMADA Takasi,
Japanese classic ragtime guitarist, singer, poet, editor of "the Ainu Times".
Japanese Page
Feel free to contact me. otarunay@yahoo.co.jp
HAMADA, Takasi
Tomioka-cho 1-32-136 Otaru City, Hokkaido, Japan
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| RAGTIME ARTICLE |
| "List of
the ragtime guitar tunes" "How to arrange ragtime for the guitar" |
| Page of David Thomas Roberts |
| Composition List
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- Album
page has been
newly updated.
All of my albums can be ordered with PayPal payment! (Apr.15, 2025) 
- *West Coast Ragtime Festival (2025/11/21-23)... New! (Dec.2, 2025)
- I was
honored to participate in the West Coast
Ragtime Festival, a historic ragtime
festival held annually in Sacramento, California.
Warren Jennings-san and his wife Tomoko-san helped me.
Warren-san is a former WCRS board member and now a volunteer supporter, worked hard with Tomoko-san to invite me to the festival.
I'll be uploading an expanded version of my "American Diary: Sacramento," which I posted on Facebook (sorry, all in Japanese).
Please look forward to it!
(Photo: Mr. Richard Dowling waits for my turn at the finale event on 11/23.)
Takashi Hamada 
- Quotes;
" You have a wonderful touch and the choice of material is very interesting. You are a special player."
- Woody Mann, country blues guitarist -" Wonderful, historical contemporary ragtime guitarist, who should be equal to David Laibman."
- Tokio Uchida, country blues guitarist, and president of TAB Guitar School in Japan -" Mr. Hamada is a talented guitarist."
- Jazz by Mail -- "
He is regarded as a leading expert of ragtime
guitar in Japan. He has much originality, and his
stance to the ragtime arrangement for solo guitar
is very serious."
- (Japanese) Acoustic Guitar Magazine 19, 2004 - - "
Does he have 7 fingers of right hand?"
- (Japanese) Acoustic Guitar Book 17, 2003 - " There are so many beautiful compositions on the CD ["Orion"], but 'I'll Remember You' stands out especially for me now."
- David Thomas Roberts, composer, pianist, Neo-Romantic artist -" You did a very good job on 'Alaskan Rag' and 'Ragtime Bobolink'. We also enjoyed your compositions. They are very nice."
- Patricia Lamb Conn, a daughter of Joseph F. Lamb -" You have really catched the Ragtime sound, intricated, sophisticated, dancing and powerful, it's amazing! "
- Antoine Payen, ragtime blues guitarist -