Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

I have been working in museum/library part time and have been bringing my shakuhachi to work.   I get looks, and sometimes questions.  At first I was a bit shy about it, as I have less than a year of playing under my belt.  After awhile, however, I stopped caring, and pretty much just walk around all over the place with my shakuhachi.

Anyways, today I had the chance to play in a sealed off stairwell and I had a wonderful time.  The echoes filled the space around me with a resonant echo that made the volume jump to a pleasing level... at least to me....

Well during an improvisation on Kyorei (which I am trying to learn still), a security guard came and stopped me as my music had apparently set off some sensors and was causing confusion to the poor security staff.  To my credit at least, he seemed to like the music I was playing.

This is where the ramble gets weird.  I guess the security guard liked my particular madness.  It is not every day they have to go capture a shakuhachi player.  Rather than be mean and tell me to stop, he brought me to a large auditorium area where they put on concerts and said that I could practice there whenever it was not in use (which is most of the time).  I was pretty stoked.  Now I have a real stage to practice on when I'm working there.     Actually I kind of preferred the smelly stiarwell as it was more echoey, but a stage is a pretty damn good second option

Just thought I would share.