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#1 2008-09-09 11:16:43
Ebay Shakuhachi - The Horror
http://cgi.ebay.com/SHAKUHACHI-FLUTE-AN … dZViewItem
At first it looked like a blurry Shakuhachi with a relatively nice finish. Then you go down the page. Obviously the utagachi is terrible, there are also five holes on the front of the instrument... but can someone explain the two holes near the bottom back of the flute?!
"These are... speed holes! They make the car go faster."
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#2 2008-09-09 11:19:01
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its probably a xiao .
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#3 2008-09-09 15:14:57
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Re: Ebay Shakuhachi - The Horror
Vevolis wrote:
... but can someone explain the two holes near the bottom back of the flute?!
"These are... speed holes! They make the car go faster."
They make it so the bottom note isn't dictated by the length of the bamboo. I agree it looks kind of like a xiao. It doesn't look all that bad to me. I couldn't find anywhere in the text that they called them speed holes, was that your addition to the description?
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#4 2008-09-09 16:30:03
Re: Ebay Shakuhachi - The Horror
radi0gnome wrote:
Vevolis wrote:
... but can someone explain the two holes near the bottom back of the flute?!
"These are... speed holes! They make the car go faster."They make it so the bottom note isn't dictated by the length of the bamboo. I agree it looks kind of like a xiao. It doesn't look all that bad to me. I couldn't find anywhere in the text that they called them speed holes, was that your addition to the description?
Yes. (Simpsons quote where the mob shoots holes in a car that a salesman is trying to sell)
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#5 2008-09-09 17:05:25
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Re: Ebay Shakuhachi - The Horror
It's a xiao, those are vent holes to tune to pitch of the root note. This is a good example of someone calling something a shakuhachi on Ebay and it's NOT.
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#6 2008-09-09 19:24:57
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It also looks like it could be a fairly wide bore xiao (hsiao) too, which doesn't bode well for good second/third octave playing. I had one very similar once and the best I could ever get was an octave and a third. Also very little literature in English about xiao or guqin (the ancient Chinese version of the lap Hawaiian guitar) or any other Chinese instrument.
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#7 2008-09-10 08:49:40
Re: Ebay Shakuhachi - The Horror
Chris Moran wrote:
It also looks like it could be a fairly wide bore xiao (hsiao) too, which doesn't bode well for good second/third octave playing. I had one very similar once and the best I could ever get was an octave and a third. Also very little literature in English about xiao or guqin (the ancient Chinese version of the lap Hawaiian guitar) or any other Chinese instrument.
Is the bore on an Xiao less defined than the Shakuhachi? There are a lot of wide bore Shakuhachi but the bore can be fine tuned. Is there a reason why it wouldn't be done with an Xiao; is it just the nature of the instrument?
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