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#1 2005-10-17 04:38:11

Alex
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From: Barcelona - Spain
Registered: 2005-10-17
Posts: 138

Introduction

Hi everybody,

Well, I´m glad to be party of this forum, seems to me a much better way for dealing with the great number and complexity of Shaku-topics around.

Regarding my own experience, I started playing Shakuhachi by chance. My girlfirend´s parents (now my wife) asked me what I wanted for a wedding present; being them Japanese I thought I wanted something from their own culture, traditional to include a sense of timelessness (not interested on new things with programmed obsolescence) and as I´m interested in music I thought a musical instrument would be perfect. After discarding Shamisen (I play guitar so it was the most logical alternative) due to my girfriend´s accusations of bulkiness I suggested "What about Shakuhachi?"

But I didn't want to ask for something I was not going to use, so after being warned of the hardship of the instrument I decided to start studying it before making a decision. I bought a cheap student Shakuhachi from my master (Mike Coaxall, what a wonderful master and person!) and started a race against time (I was in London and was moving back to Spain -i.e. no master). I didn´t manage to learn a lot, but just enough to completely fall in love with this amazing instrument, which challenges every bit of my being: body, mind and spirit.

Cannot find so much time to practice though, which worries me inmensely (specially after hearing stories about hours of daily practice for a decade to get some decent level), but I´m happy when I play and I guess that´s what it´s all about.

Looking forward for those topics

Salud!

Alex


"An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's "at" somewhere. You always have to realise that you are constantly in the state of becoming. And as long as you can stay in that realm, you'll sort of be all right"
Bob Dylan

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