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#1 2009-05-25 13:48:37
- Musgo da Pedra
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Bending bamboo?!
Hi all!
I would like to know how to bend bamboo eficiently...
I have tried but most times the bamboo looks the same after the job...
Any thought on that???
Thanks!
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#2 2009-05-25 14:16:46
Re: Bending bamboo?!
Musgo da Pedra wrote:
Hi all!
I would like to know how to bend bamboo eficiently...
Henrique,
Here is a link from an earlier thread which explains a few ways to do it. Good luck!
http://www.shakuhachiforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=1642
Ken
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#3 2009-05-25 14:55:29
- dust
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Re: Bending bamboo?!
Here's a couple of bamboo bending videos..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 0791304015
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV-CE3hW4ss
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#4 2009-05-25 15:52:46
- edosan
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Re: Bending bamboo?!
Musgo da Pedra wrote:
Hi all!
I would like to know how to bend bamboo eficiently...
I have tried but most times the bamboo looks the same after the job...
Any thought on that???
Thanks!
A few more links on info, as it applies to shakuhachi:
http://www.kodoan.com/FLUTEMAKING.html
http://www.shakuhachi.com/J-P-Aburanuki-08.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emptybits/ … 902640283/
If you want more, Google 'aburanuki' 
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It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
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#5 2009-05-28 07:12:28
- Musgo da Pedra
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Re: Bending bamboo?!
Thank you all! You opened my mind again! And remembered me about googling also... : {)
I will try this job again next weekend!
Omnia mea mecum porto
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#6 2009-05-28 20:37:11
- Derek Van Choice
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Re: Bending bamboo?!
One other source of great info, from a very old post by Monty on the shakuhachi email forum (that now appears to have been assimilated by Yahoo?):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboocra … 9?source=1
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#7 2009-05-28 22:41:34
- edosan
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Re: Bending bamboo?!
Great link, Derek. I have taken the liberty of editing that post by Monty for readability and posting it as a PDF here:
(direct link to download) http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9748/a … imonty.pdf
Zen is not easy.
It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
Bupkes.
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