Yep. Seems to me that he best "machine" is nature growing a piece of bamboo.
Somebody cuts it to a length, cuts a mouthpiece and a few holes... the
original shak was probably a piece of bamboo growing out in the meadow
someplace and a breeze blew over it making a tone...
maybe the tuners need to be tuned or detuned or thrown away...
so much of playing by the book seems to be like a straight jacket (maybe
most people would think I need one?) but I feel so much better just playing
my old straight stick of bamboo and starting and finishing with RO, trying a
few of the other holes every once in awhile?
Isn't this the "original piece"? Just the wind blowing over the unadorned
bamboo?
Brett Breitwieser ( zen@arizuma.us <mailto:zen@arizuma.us> )
Arizuma Zen
http://arizuma.us
"The clouds evaporate in the cold sky.
The autumn has departed and the mountain is barren.
This is where we originally dwell." -Hongzhi
-----Original Message-----
From: IieoOoeiI@aol.com [mailto:IieoOoeiI@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:26 AM
To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Tuners
Most of the eigthy-plus sounds coming out of my shakuhachi aren't going
to light up a little green light on a machine. Restricting this lovely
analogue instrument to a reductionist western scale is an abomination.
The birds in my neighborhood all sing "out of tune," and nobody's
complaining about it.
U.M.
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