Why would you want to be "realistic"?
I started playing shakuhachi in my mid forties, already having
developed a career in music on another instrument. What
could be less realistic than that?
Like many others I play it because I love it, and have no
expectation of gaining any real competence (at least not in this
lifetime).
When I play the shakuhachi I like to keep in mind a Tibetan
Buddhist slogan: "Abandon all hope of fruition!" My practice is
to play wholeheartedly and to be critical without being
aggressive.
Mark Miller
On Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:30:01 +0000 "Stav Tapuch" wrote:
> I am a 38 year old who would like to study the Shakuhachi.
>
> Is this a realistic idea for someone my age or do you need to
start
> studying
> this instrument at a very young age to achieve any level of
> competence? My
> hope is not to be a master musician - but to play well enough
to
> entertain
> family, friends and, of course, myself.
>
> Are there musicians on this list who found the shakuhachi in
mid-life and
> who accomplished a degree of competence? How long did it
take you? How
> many years of study does it realisticly take to play solo
honkoyoko (sp?)
> music well enough to be pleasing to the ears?
>
>
>
>
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