It's interesting that the blacks shakuhachis you two are discussing are
two-piece flutes. My Meiji-era flute is a one piece rootend 1.7, and is
lacquered inside and out. All black. Very mysterious in appearance, and in
sound. I have plans to go and play in the Paris metro stations with it, and
utilize that great tile echo to accentuate its own echoey "in a pineforest
at night after a rain" qualities.
>Hi Dominic,
>
> A fellow shakuhachi player friend in Kochi, now training to be a Zen
>monk at a temple up in Shiga ken,, has a black lacquered shakuhachi with a
>red lacquered joint piece. The maker apparently made it as an experiment;
>it is a 1.8 and has a nice sound. The maker's name in this particular case
>is Genpu Mori, a professional shakuhachi maker in Kyoto. Another Kinko ryu
>player in Kochi from a different branch also has a black lacquered
>shakuhachi which he uses as his main flute, so I think one sees those kind
>of flutes occasionally.
>
>Dan Ribble
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