http://www.sciam.com/1998/0398issue/0398scicit3.html
Here is a very interesting article about flutes and materials. In case the
link doesn't work, it is from the March 1998 edition of Scientific American.
You can find it on the Scientific American site (www.sciam.com). I'd
enjoy hearing your responses to the article.
By the way, I've been impressed with the apparently strong scientific
backgrounds of the contributors to this site. It appears to be an educated
group of people who are interested in the shakuhachi. I thought I would
just find a bunch of hippies :-)
>From: "Bill O'Connor." <billo44@gaea.ocn.ne.jp>
>To: "Shakuhachi News" <shakuhachi@weber.ucsd.edu>
>Subject: The universe
>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:18:03 +0900
>
>Dear Zachary,
> What about my point that most 'bamboo' Shakuhachi
>don't
>actually have a bamboo bore? If you have an instrument with no filler in
>the bore, which also plays in tune, you a very lucky man...so the material
>of the bore isn't bamboo it's something else. Unlike instruments such as
>recorders which are turned on a lathe, or have the bore design drilled out
>using very precise tooling (I think!?#), the Shakuhachi bore is hand made,
>by applying layer upon layer of some other filler material. Yet the
>instrument still resonates and has life in it when you blow a sound. The
>inside of the instrument, unlike 9/10ths of the matter in the universe, is
>fairly easy to locate...
>
>
>Cheers.
>
>Bill O'Connor.
>
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