Do you think this is just Tom's way of saying you have to be able to
"close a hole completely" on a shakuhachi?
I hope he was saying something more interesting than that....
> o thus it needs to be possible to close a hole completely
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>>>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.
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