Re: [Shaku] Everything you wanted to know about re-meri

From: Bruce Hunter (bhunter3@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 01:25:43 PST


----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Justin ." <justinasia@yahoo.com>
> The thing was that from a > previous teacher I was taught re meri as =
having it's pitch ABOVE tsu, but only=20
> just. I.e. a pitch somewhere in between tsu chu meri and tsu. I was =
really curious whether anyone else had > be taught such, but it seems =
that many people are playing re meri as re chu meri! So has anyone ever=20
> come across re meri as this microtone above tsu? Sounded "mysterious", =
but I had heard that shakuhachi > sometimes deals in microtones.
Hi Justin,
Masayuki Koga writes about 72 notes per octave (Shakuhachi Japanese =
Bamboo Flute,1978). There is a hand-written chart, (as opposed to an =
actual graph), in a book by him which therefore only gives approximate =
values. My interpretation of the chart gives the following =
approximations:
ue no re - approx. 46 cents sharp
ko no re - app. 23 c sharp
re - at "center" pitch
a no re - app. 23 c flat
shita no re - app. 42 c flat
ma no re - app. 88 c flat.
The bottom "tick" on the "graph" is at 92 cents, so it would appear that =
he wants the most meri to be no more than less than 92, with 100 cents =
being a half-step, or semi-tone.
HTH,
Bruce Hunter

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