I'm glad I saw this email because I know this to be
true. English speakers beware and search out the best
teacher for you, not the only one near you.... hahaha
But if thats all you got then go for it and learn all
the techniques you can from them.....unless you cant
afford it. :)
jason
--- Stav Tapuch <tapuch@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> In responde to :
> >Stav, I can't say with any certainty how many
> shakuhachi players
> >(accomplished or on the road to being so) there
> might be in Japan now, but
> >I
> >can give you some idea. I live in the city of
> Kumamoto (population 640,000
> >or so) which is a fair distance from Osaka or
> Tokyo. I've been here and
> >studying shakuhachi for the past 19 years. I can
> easily say that there are
> >100 or so Kinko and Tozan players here who perform
> publicly. It's an easy
> >bet that there are up to 10 times as many who don't
> perform but play for
> >the
> >enjoyment of it or are not ready for performance.
>
> This is actually very intresting. BY your estimates
> 1 in 6400 people in
> Japanese are proficient enough (or just plain
> extroverted enough) to perform
> shakuhahci. And a full 1 in 640 are casual players
> of the instrument. Or,
> in other words - there are in Japan 125 million
> people, and therefore nearly
> 20,000 people who are fairly proficient in
> shakuhachi playing, and around
> 200,000 who are casual players. Yes? Well, all I
> can say is that my notion
> that shakuhachi playing is a dead art is about as
> wrong as wrong gets.
>
> And this goes really well with the rest of your
> e-mail - I am just really
> out of touch with what is going on with this
> instrument in Japan. I thought
> the Japanese players that made it here were all that
> Japan has to offer, but
> it turns out that is just not true. The Japanese
> players who make it to NYC
> are just the very few who are are interested in a
> connection with the
> shakuhahci players beyond their borders. It is not
> that shakuhachi playing
> is a dying art, it is just that culturally Japan is
> just plain old insular.
>
> Seriously - thanks for clarifying this, I really had
> no idea.
>
>
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