[Shaku] Re: shakuhachi V1 #1228

Hi Karl

  Interestingly, min'yô players in Japan usually own and use more
flutes of different lengths than other shakuhachi players for the
very reason you mention.

Many/most makers will make a 1.5 for you if you special order one.
This might mean extra cost, of course. You can get a good 1.5 flute
from a maker named Chikuyu. He works a lot with the shakuhachi player
Tajima, and is known for selling sets of flutes covering 12 pitches
in the chromatic scale. But there are probably some used 1.5 flutes
floating around, too.

See you in a few months!

Cheers, Riley

WSF08 - http://worldshakuhachifestival08.com

Dr. Riley Lee
PO Box 939
Manly NSW 1655 Australia
0414 626 453
+61 2 9976 6904
www.rileylee.net

On 03/04/2008, at 7:25 AM, shakuhachi wrote:

> shakuhachi Wed, 2 Apr 2008 Volume 1 :
> Number 1228
>
> In this issue:
>
> weird length shakuhachi question
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:38:49 -0700
> From: "Young, Karl" <karl.young@ucsf.edu>
> To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Subject: weird length shakuhachi question
> Message-ID:
> <9D202D4E86A4BF47BA6943ABDF21BE78039F0B1F@EXVS06.net.ucsf.edu>
>
> I've been doing some playing with a minyo group lately and as it
> turns =
> out the best key for the singer would have me playing a flute such
> that =
> ro would be an F concert, i.e. a half step higher than a 1.6 (a 1.5
> I =
> guess). We've been doing pieces in a key appropriate to the 1.6 but =
> that's not optimal for the singer (i.e. the lowest notes aren't
> quite as =
> strong as they could be). Interestingly, while I've learned to play
> some =
> jazz pieces in pretty weird keys, transposition doesn't work so well =
> with minyo as a lot of the time the flute plays the melody (or close =
> embellishments) with the singer. So the phrasing and dynamics are
> often =
> dictated by what the singer is doing and this is hard to do when
> one has =
> to play a lot of meri notes. So my question is, has anyone ever seen =
> such a beast (i.e. a 1.5 or a flute with ro at F concert) ? It seems =
> like it wouldn't be hard to make but probably no one makes them
> because =
> there is no demand. I suppose if anyone would know it would be
> someone =
> who focuses on minyo playing but I don't know any such players.
> Anyway, =
> thanks for any thoughts on this. Cheers,
>
> Karl Young
> Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCSF
> VA Medical Center, MRS Unit (114M)
> Phone: (415) 221-4810 x3114
> FAX: (415) 668-2864
> Email: karl young at ucsf edu
>
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