At 01:41 PM 1/24/04 +0000, you wrote:
>The precurser to the komuso shakuhachi is called hitoyogiri.
I find it confusing to call the hitoyogiri a "shakuhachi." As Riley Lee
explains in his dissertation, the shakuhachi's radically different
mouthpiece cut at a slant enabled the player to adapt to the new half-tone
intervals (meri) of the Edo period *in* scale popularized by urban samisen
music played by geishas. The hitoyogiri's notched mouthpiece was unable to
bend the notes, lead to the eclipse of the hitoyogiri by the shakuhachi.
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