Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Elliot K wrote:

Yeah! My favorite part of elementary school was Let's Listen to Some Shakuhachi Day!
So what did you play for them?

It's my niece's school, she's the one holding the other flute.

I played "Sakura", "Twinkle Twinkle" (they sang), "Soran Bushi" (they played shakers and claves) and "Kojo no Tsuki" and talked with them about shakuhachi, Japanese music and music in general. Very cute.

Um, in Milwaukee 1966 there were only white people.

mrwuwu wrote:

What's up with that weird fogged effect on most of the upper right of the photo?   Makes the two teachers and some of the kids look like ghosts among the living.

That part of the image is blown out a bit by lens flare from the daylight coming in that window. Nothing particularly weird about it.

Such a great mob in that picture.

Last edited by edosan (2010-09-07 01:07:26)

It's a great picture, Tairaku!
I LOVE playing for kids! They listen and react with such honesty.
Cool!
Will you do more of this kind of thing or was it a one off thing because of your connection to the class through the niece?

I am putting together a kiddies music class for 2-3 year olds. Some parents at the meditation center have asked me if I could do so... and even though the kids are 2-3 years old, my plan is to expose them to music around the world... Hope is then that they would be much more understanding about differences.

Thanks for sharing the picture!

Tairaku 太楽 wrote:

Thanks Kiku but I gotta tell ya, one flute I played was jiari and the other, albeit jinashi, is Tozan.

Well, I have nothing against neither Tozan nor Jinuri!
I was talking about differences in culture - not instrument making! Poor kids that would really put them off music... Ha!