The universe

From: Bill O'Connor. (billo44@gaea.ocn.ne.jp)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 22:18:03 PST


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Dear Zachary,
                    What about my point that most 'bamboo' Shakuhachi don't
actually have a bamboo bore? If you have an instrument with no filler in
the bore, which also plays in tune, you a very lucky man...so the material
of the bore isn't bamboo it's something else. Unlike instruments such as
recorders which are turned on a lathe, or have the bore design drilled out
using very precise tooling (I think!?#), the Shakuhachi bore is hand made,
by applying layer upon layer of some other filler material. Yet the
instrument still resonates and has life in it when you blow a sound. The
inside of the instrument, unlike 9/10ths of the matter in the universe, is
fairly easy to locate...

Cheers.

Bill O'Connor.

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<DIV>Bill O'Connor.</DIV>
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