Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Welcome Thomas.

[Forum members: be sure to have a look at Thomas' website. He makes many kinds of flutes; even makes Saxophones and fujaras! See the link 'Mes Flutes' for a list, including pics and some sound clips.]

It's great that Thomas is making Balinese suling.  Those Balinese suling are pretty good for learning circular breathing on. It's probably the easiest flute kind of instrument to circular breath with, and that's typically how they are played. Learn it on the easier instruments made for it, like suling or didjeridu, and then move onto instruments that it's more difficult with.

Hi everybody,

what a warm welcoming...! thanks

Thanks Taldaran for this precious advice;
I'm kind of noticing that these times.
I'll try to meet French masters.

As far as my first Shakuhachi customers were novices like me,
even as happy as they are of their instrument, I can't have any critical advice from a experienced player.
Maybe I should start contact with French Shakuhachi community even if I don't have enough confidence yet in my work to meet masters...!

Indonesian Sulings are also new coming from my 2009's flutemaking experiences;
I especially like the tuning of Indonesian scales; not tempered, with expressive microtones.
(one of those scales 'Slendro' is pentatonic like the Shakuhachi scale : the octave is divided in 5 equidistant tones i.e one tone is 240 Cent = little bit less than 1&1/2 tone)

I started experiencing on Slovakian Fujara (still with bamboo) 2 years ago and recently found good results.
this rich overtone gigantic flute is just amazing !

As I am a young flutemaker (28 years old and only 6 years of flutemaking);
I am still quite dispersed in many kind of flutes so my results are going slower than if I was working on one instrument only.

OK so now i'll try to join a picture of my latest 1.8 Shakuhachi :


good breathings to all

thomas