Yatai-bayashi

[7] In 1972, members of the taiko group Ondekoza spent only one week in Chichibu in order to learn the piece from festival participants and adapt it for their future performances.

[9] In an interview with Ondekoza founder Eitetsu Hayashi, he said, "We were really bad drummers and we knew that the only way we could show we were trying our best was to speed the piece up.

"[9] To make the performance more dramatic, players leaned farther back from the drum and a decrescendo-crescendo section was implemented.

[10] Ondekoza's arrangement of the piece was adopted broadly across Japan[11] However, with these changes and others, it has been argued that this version of Yatai-bayashi is substantially different enough that it lacks the local nuance of the original from Chichibu.

[2] A single chu-daiko player begins playing a complex rhythm on a horizontally mounted drum that is low to the ground.