When the storytellers says, for example, 'I'm going to Shin-machi (a red-light district), a very merry place' (from 'Three Written Vows'), the musicians in the backstage begin to play the shamisen as they sing, expressing the glamour of the district.
たとえば、「新町にまいります、その陽気な事」（「三枚起請」）と演者が言うと、楽屋にいるお囃子が三味線を弾き唄を唄って華やかな遊里を表現する。