Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Welcome Danny and nice to breed more Oz shakuhachists!

I am new here. Nice to meet you Danny.


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Cheers all for the welcome - I've just booked my first lesson! :-)

Danny wrote:

Cheers all for the welcome - I've just booked my first lesson! :-)

Cool! Face to face or Skype?

radi0gnome wrote:

Cool! Face to face or Skype?

Face to face.. though I've got nearly a month until the lesson, so I reckon bad habits are probably already forming but it'll be good to sort them out. At least I'll already have a half decent embouchure and ability to make sounds and do some fingering - so a bit of a head start in some respects.

Elliot K wrote:

Good going, Danny! You'll have a blast and you'll learn a lot. (You'll also prevent many bad habits from forming!)
Cheers.

And just to clarify, my lesson isn't with Riley Lee - it's with Bronwyn Fitzpatrick

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Danny wrote:

Recently, while living at a Buddhist retreat centre, the cook gave me a hand made bamboo flute (no, not a Shakuhachi but still a beautiful sounding F# flute)

Hi Danny,

Enthusiasm!

I keep my Yuu in my locker at work just in case I get an opportunity to play/practice. I find it astounding that someone can hand you a simple folk instrument and then there is all this tradition and study to pursue. I had been playing the piece of bamboo I bought at a market for a few years before I discovered the shakuhachi, when M. handed me a 1.8, made by Stuart Ransom, and told me that there was music written for the instrument.

Last weekend I caught up with Bronwyn and other members of the Australian Shakuhachi Society at the Autumn Big Blow. Lookout for the Spring Big Blow, probably in Canberra, the long weekend in October. Very little cost to attend; last weekend's event was free because the venue was available for nothing and it could easily have been mistaken for a master class. I enjoyed getting some performance practice and feedback. I think you would find you are most welcome.

Cheerio, Fiona.

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Tairaku 大楽 wrote:

Danny wrote:

Cheers all for the welcome - I've just booked my first lesson! :-)

Let this be a lesson for newbies. Danny has done the right thing. Decided to play shakuhachi and immediately sought out a qualified teacher and got the ball rolling. Bravo!

No, no, no. Entirely wrong. Entire-ly WRONG.

First Danny should have gone on eBay and bought the first $9.99 "shakuhachi" he could find. The ones soaked to the gills in Tung oil or maybe the ones with a Japanese-kinda-sounding name from Texas or perhaps a Dong-Xiao thingie from China with 14 holes.

Then, while lurking in the shadows of the Shakuhachi BBQ, Danny should have contacted as many members as possible and tried to get as many spuriously pirated copies of various and obscure shakuhachi scores he could carry away in his hot little clutches ...

And then release a series of nineteen YouTube videos of himself --masterfully-- playing the aforementioned scores on his 4-hanko licking-stick, while standing in a dank corner of his W.C., face obscured darkly by a sparkly purple shower curtain.

There.

That's the way he should have done it.

edosan wrote:

Chris Moran wrote:

That's the way he should have done it.

Not everybody needs to take the path that YOU took, X.

Just sayin'...

And I'm not the one who has to wear the Lederhosen Punishment.

I'm with you up till the part about the sparkly purple shower curtain.  Now that's just going too far.

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