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Dave your a legend. well said about Watazumi Doso Roshi.
Hey Alcvin, much respect to you too. I have gained much from your amazing web site. Your printable playing guides and western stave and tabulature 'translator' have got me started on learning to read and play honkyoku.
I am a self-teaching shakuhachi and hochiku(spelling as Tom D. recomends, you guys read his site? Smart Man. Big Ups Tom.) aspirant. I have made my own shakuhachi for the last five years, and simply practiced improvisation.(playing in the moment) for the most part. figuring out fingering excercises as I went. and so on as it is.
Any how it was some four years into my self teaching that I came accross a person who knew what a shakuhachi was (I am from south africa, we don't know much here. THERE ARE NO SHAKUHACHI TEACHERS HERE!!!! anyone wanna come visit, you can crash at my place. :-) ). Turns out his dad, as a young man studied for six months in Japan in his mid twenties I believe, making it some twenty odd years ago. After some months I finally got to visit him at his home and meet his flutes!
Ahh. It was next no nearly the first time I held and played an actual bamboo shakuhachi, proper from japan and all. (first was about a year before when Yoshio Kurahashi came thru town and peformed, compliments of the local Japanese Consulate. After his show I asked to see his flute -if i could pretty please-. This was it! After some years making and playing "shakuhachi" i was about to hold and play a real one. this concert was also the first I had properly heard a shaku played. (One wonders how i got interested then. aah. bit more of a story i wont get into now.) I (shyly) made gifts of two of my painted PVC flutes to one of the Ladies of the Hogakukai, and it caused much fuss, seems her daughter wanted to start learning and she considered my flutes good enough. This resulted in my first shakuhachi/koto CD. I was given one, and a pamphlet and a biographical magazine of Kurahashi-san. I left there feeling quite chuffed with th experience.)
So anyways I am finally meeting this man, John, and his flutes.
Um long story short. He has many recordings, books, and four flutes, One of which was his teachers flute which was gifted to him before he left Japan. Wow! what a beauty. (John was given the Japanese name Ennishi, En meaning fated connection)
Really getting to the point, he also has a copy of Watazumi's CD . This I was really eager to hear coz i had already read the dissertation being mentioned, (Alcvin weren't you a student of his?) and had already developed a respect for him just from his words and from the fact that he stood firmly against common trends. His 3000 day shugyo astounds me. One day, yes, one day.
And yes he is truly inspiring.
I have until now been making my flutes out of the controvesial PVC, now coming to a degree of quite comfortable playability, 25mm and now 34mm 2.4's and 2.8's (cant play bigger yet.) Bamboo is so hard to find. but I have recently found a grove of quite usable shoots. good diameter, node spacings are not quite correct( i learnt the correctness of bamboo choosing only after I harvested,from Tom Deaver's amazing site, really guys read it.)
Any how, I am rambling, this is the first time I am voicing myself to the world of Shakuhachi enthusiasts. So many inspiring people with amazing websites, thank you all.
Kinya Sogawa's is fabulous, my PVC flutes have evolved to something quite like his, though his site helped me refine them.
One day soon I will make it to Japan and start knocking on teachers doors.
Look out.
Brian. Schultz
Having a body or not having a body
is there self or no self
I ponder deeply like this.
For a long time I sit
leaning on the rocks:
green grass comes up
around my legs, red dust
setles on my head.
Already I see worldly people
offering wine an fruit at my deathbed.
*HANSHAN*
If you understand, things are just as they are, if you don't understand, things are just as they are.
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#ff0080 size=2 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Dave your a legend. well said about Watazumi Doso Roshi.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080>Hey Alcvin, much respect to you too. I have gained much from your amazing web site. Your printable playing guides and western stave and tabulature 'translator' have got me started on learning to read and play honkyoku.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> I am a self-teaching shakuhachi and hochiku(spelling as Tom D. recomends, you guys read his site? Smart Man. Big Ups Tom.) aspirant. I have made my own shakuhachi for the last five years, and simply practiced improvisation.(playing in the moment) for the most part. figuring out fingering excercises as I went. and so on as it is.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080>Any how it was some four years into my self teaching that I came accross a person who knew what a shakuhachi was (I am from south africa, we don't know much here. THERE ARE NO SHAKUHACHI TEACHERS HERE!!!! anyone wanna come visit, you can crash at my place. :-) ). Turns out his dad, as a young man studied for six months in Japan in his mid twenties I believe, making it some twenty odd years ago. After some months I finally got to visit him at his home and meet his flutes! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080>Ahh. It was next no nearly the first time I held and played an actual bamboo shakuhachi, proper from japan and all. (first was about a year before when Yoshio Kurahashi came thru town and peformed, compliments of the local Japanese Consulate. After his show I asked to see his flute -if i could pretty please-. This was it! After some years making and playing "shakuhachi" i was about to hold and play a real one. this concert was also the first I had properly heard a shaku played. (One wonders how i got interested then. aah. bit more of a story i wont get into now.) I (shyly) made gifts of two of my painted PVC flutes to one of the Ladies of the Hogakukai, and it caused much fuss, seems her daughter wanted to start learning and she considered my flutes good enough. This resulted in my first shakuhachi/koto CD. I was given one, and a pamphlet and a biographical magazine of Kurahashi-san. I left there feeling quite chuffed with th experience.)</FONT>!
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> So anyways I am finally meeting this man, John, and his flutes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> Um long story short. He has many recordings, books, and four flutes, One of which was his teachers flute which was gifted to him before he left Japan. Wow! what a beauty. (John was given the Japanese name Ennishi, En meaning fated connection) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> Really getting to the point, he also has a copy of Watazumi's CD . This I was really eager to hear coz i had already read the dissertation being mentioned, (Alcvin weren't you a student of his?) and had already developed a respect for him just from his words and from the fact that he stood firmly against common trends. His 3000 day shugyo astounds me. One day, yes, one day.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> And yes he is truly inspiring. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080>I have until now been making my flutes out of the controvesial PVC, now coming to a degree of quite comfortable playability, 25mm and now 34mm 2.4's and 2.8's (cant play bigger yet.) Bamboo is so hard to find. but I have recently found a grove of quite usable shoots. good diameter, node spacings are not quite correct( i learnt the correctness of bamboo choosing only after I harvested,from Tom Deaver's amazing site, really guys read it.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> Any how, I am rambling, this is the first time I am voicing myself to the world of Shakuhachi enthusiasts. So many inspiring people with amazing websites, thank you all.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> Kinya Sogawa's is fabulous, my PVC flutes have evolved to something quite like his, though his site helped me refine them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> One day soon I will make it to Japan and start knocking on teachers doors. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080>Look out.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> Brian. Schultz</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> Having a body or not having a body</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> is there self or no self</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> I ponder deeply like this.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> For a long time I sit</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> leaning on the rocks:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> green grass comes up</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> around my legs, red dust</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> setles on my head.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> Already I see worldly people</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> offering wine an fruit at my deathbed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0080> *HANSHAN*</FONT></DIV>
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