>I think playing minyo is much more challenging than playing
>honkyoku. If your pitch or timing is off with a folk song, right
>away you sound like a poor musician; that is someone with poor pitch
>and timing. Honkyoku is a much more forgiving form of music.
>
Minyo is not easy to play correctly. In a way it is less forgiving
as you say than Honkyoku because it has a melody that requires good
pitch, timing etc. Western ears or ears unused to Honkyoku will be
more forgiving of a poor Honkyoku performance, than a poor Minyo
performance.
> However this does not add up to Minyo being harder to play than
>Honkyoku. It's just easier to fool audiences outside Japan with
>out of tune, poorly played Honkyoku. But, you can't fool yourself.
Peter
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