If a shakuhachi makes one sick upon playing it,
something is clearly wrong...
Is the Urushi "Tradition" worth holding on to?
Isaac
--- Tom <tom-tom@gaea.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> > Hey just play jinashi flutes, no urushi no problem
> :)
> >
> > All the best
> > Lorne
>
> For the record, jinashi does not mean that there is
> no urushi used. Even
> hochiku as made by Nishimura Koku may be made with
> urushi.
>
> During apprenticeship a number of beginners reacted
> to the urushi and ended
> up in the hospital with their bodies so swollen that
> they could not put
> their clothes on, eyes swollen shut, too. After
> about four months of using
> urushi every day and more trips to the hospital they
> were fine and had no
> reaction. Don't mean to say get the reaction again
> and again but it does
> seem to be the case that after repeated exposure on
> a daily basis there is
> finally no reaction at all. The same is true not
> only of shakuhachi makers
> but others who use urushi daily.
>
> Tom Deaver
>
> Bei Shu Shakuhachi Workshop
> http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~shaku100/
>
>
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