Bruce,
There is one bookstore in particular in the Jimbocho bookshop area of Tokyo
where they have stacks of old notation books. Cannot recall the name of
this shop but it's on the main avenue with all the rest of the bookshops
and antique noh masks are always displayed in the window. Not certain if
there are any shakuhachi scores there, but I go there regularly to pick up
old, unwanted shamisen notation books--next to the piles and piles of noh
scores. If you don't find any shakuhachi notation at that shop you might be
able to find such treasures at some of the other stores on that street. You
could also try Toyoda on that same street--they specialize in books on
Japanese music, dance and theater.
Happy hunting.
Jay
At 02:08 PM 2/21/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I've been working on a project to make a list of all Kawase
>(Chikuyusha) scores known to exist. I started with a list that
>ostensibly represented all of the Kawase catalog - some 162 pieces,
>and then went through my own collection and the collection of a
>couple of friends, discovering a few pieces that are no longer
>published.
>
>For the curious, this list is online at:
> http://communication.ucsd.edu/shaku/kawase_index.html
>
>And if you see or have access to anything not listed here, please
>let me know.
>
>This got me to thinking. Where does old sheet music go? I've
>asked at a lot of antique stores, but only once ran across any
>notation, and then it was for koto.
>
>Somewhere there must be piles of old notation. I've heard that
>people used to add shakuachi to funeral pyres, but I can't imagine
>them tossing on the notation. Do those of you who live in Japan
>find old scores when you go knocking around antique shops?
>
>bj
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