----- Original Message -----
From: "Stav Tapuch" <tapuch@hotmail.com>
To: <oldmanriver@alltel.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: yuu report
>
> Hey Gene,
>
> So here is my report to you about the encounter between my sensei and the
> Yuu shakuhachi. First off he had a lot of resistance to the idea of
taking
> a plastic shakuhachi seriously. He said things like "What? Are you going
> to tell people you play the japanese plastic flute?" And he had other
> disparging comments as well about it being plastic.
>
> But, he played it for quite a while and kept saying, "This is very
intriging.
> Very intresting." When asked "why," he replied "Because it is good - as
an
> instrument it is good." He said it was not the quality of a master
> instrument - his shaku costs $10,000 and is really amazing - and he was
not
> willing to say it was as good as his, but he did say that it was
comparable
> to any standard in-tune bamboo shakuhachi.
>
> Another student of his, who has been playing for five years or so, said
that
> if it was made of bamboo it would easily cost $2,000.
>
> After playing it for a few more days I think it is great, and it has
> surplanted my bamboo flute as my flute of choice, Mostly because it is
> easier to play and it is very balanced. Bamboo flutes tend to have
strange
> characteristics like one note that plays louder or softer than the others.
>
> So basically my sensi confirmed, but with great reluctance, all that you
had
> to say about the Yuu. It is great that you are bringing them to America.
> I think my sensei will be telling his budget sensitive students to go with
> the yuu for their first flutes and it is good that they will have a US
> address to buy them from.
>
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