Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

For the last year or so I've been trying to figure out a way to get a shakuhachi "movement" started here in Finland. I've tried to be active in places such as this forum, talk to people about all this and more recently I started a website with material for beginners. Unfortunately I'm not much of an organiser by nature and all of this is new to me. I'm learning by not repeating my mistakes and talking to some wonderful people who have decades of experience in getting things started.

Yesterday I was contacted by someone who was interested in getting an instrument and had heard of me at the local shop that sells Japanese food supplies. They forwarded him to my girlfriend who in turn forwarded him to me. The funny part is that all this happened merely because I once played a couple of notes for them when I was visiting at the store and we happened to start talking about Japanese music. I'm surprised that they actually even remembered the whole thing. Lesson learned, I'll have to make a few posters or such and drop them off to various Japanese stores and the like.

Regardless of what, if anything, comes out of this I again feel like this whole thing just might work. The few of us around here are trying to get enough people together so that we could invite Gunnar Linder from Sweden to visit Finland more often. Apart from that it would certainly be nice to have more people to talk to or play with. Shakuhachi can be a pretty lonely activity at times.

I would also like to thank everyone here who has helped me with a bit of this and a bit of that. It is much thanks to all the great people I've gotten to known over the last couple of years that I'm able to try to help others to find shakuhachi.