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Someday when I was just kidding with strange fingerings, I play some in which I can heard two notes in almost the same volume... I think that the higher was a fifth of the lower... To keep this notes sounding, a even breath and a lot of concentration was necessary.
This kind of thing appears on some pieces?
Peace, Henrique
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Hi Henrique --
That's called multiphonics, and it's a very common technique in lots of new music for flute as well as shakuhachi (as well as other wind instruments). Practicing multiphonics is a good way to improve your muraiki as well as to get a more precise feeling of how to control your embouchure when jumping octaves etc.
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Atsuya Okuda sometimes creates some really beautiful, yearning, fleeting multiphonics when he's wringing out his honkyoku. Hairs stand up.
-Darren.
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Hi Henrique,
Never practiced seriously multiphonics on shakuhachi but I know that on the flute, the best way to obtain a "good" multiphonic is to open (1 or 2 holes) near the middle of the fingering.
So I tried the following fingerings :
• 5 4 3 1
• 5 4 2 1
• 5 4 1
• 5 4 2
• 5 3 2
• 5 3
...and recorded them on a 1.8 (multiph.mp3).
Here's a topic of Shakuhachi Forum speaking about multiphonics :
http://shakuhachiforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=1578
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JF,
Well Done on the multiphonics! Good to see another person working on these.
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