Tom sent this to me, but I suspect that he meant it to go to the
entire list, so here:
>From: "Tom" <shaku100@aax.mtci.ne.jp>
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 07:42:12 +0900
>Subject: The Shakuhachi
>
>In reply to the letter from Antonio Borges about how to make a
>shakuhachi....
>
>I have often wondered, in about 30 years of making shakuhachi in Japan, what
>it is that one talks about when speaking of shakuhachi and if there can be
>any consensus about any aspect of shakuhachi.
>
>I know that the same shakuhachi can be shown to a number of different
>people, shakuhachi players, and, more often than not, they will usually
>reply differently to the questions of playability, pitch and tone. So if,
>in fact, there cannot be any broad agreement about these questions, then the
>dialog ends here, and we have gotten to the end of all this quickly and
>easily.
>
>If, on the other hand, there can be some general agreement, then
>we should find out what the agreement is and see if that agreement
>can be turned into the physical reality of a shakuhachi. As
>a starter, I would suggest that the near impossiblity of using
>a one's finger to close at the same instant the entire circumfrence
>of the various tone holes is sufficient reason to not choose bamboo
>as a material for shakuhachi.
>
>Anyone out there have any ideas about this or anything else which should be
>included in the idea of shakuhachi?
>
>Bei Shu Shakuhachi Workshop
>http://www.aax.mtci.ne.jp/~shaku100/
>
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