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Dr. Riley Lee's Ph.D. Dissertation:
Yearning for the Bell: A Study of Transmission in the Shakuhachi Honkyoku Tradition
1992 University of Sydney
John Neptune's "How to tune a shakuhachi" pages:

An Interesting Bore
Pressure Points Chart
Tom Deaver on:

Hochiku and Shakuhachi
Shipping Shakuhachi
Binding Shakuhachi
Drawing of the Binding Knot used to repair cracked shakuhachi (or to reduce the probability of shakuhachi cracking).
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel on Goro Yamaguchi's CD set, Shakuhachi Honkyoku "The Soul of Shakuhachi"
Todd Barton, The Wisdom of Puh
Wood, Oil, and Water, on the chemistry of keeping wood flutes from cracking.
Oiling your recorder
The Wooden Flute's page on maintenance
Highland Hardware, US source for unscented camellia oil

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Lists of shakuhachi music

These lists are cobbled together by Bruce Jones sugagaki@gmail.com and any and all mistakes should be laid on his shoulders. Please contact him at the above address with comments, corrections, additions, deletions, etc.

List of Honkyoku on Jin Nyodo CDs and LP set.

Titles in the Jin Nyodo notation set: This page has a bit of Jin Nyodo's notation: specifically the first "page" of Mujushin Kyoku, Jin's own composition, along side a list of the titles for the 50 pieces of honkyoku and the one sutra that opens the set.

Kawase Published Notation

Tozan Published Notation

List of Honkyoku on Goro Yamaguchi CDs and in the accompanying notation book.

Honkyoku and Sankyoku - Ronnie Seldin

The shakuhachi mailing list was the hobby of Bruce Jones, when he was in the Department of Communication, at the University of California, San Diego, 1984 - 2012.

Comments about these pages should be sent to: sugagaki@gmail.com

Last update: Tue Apr 10 08:11:44 PDT 2012