Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Beautiful, thanks for uploading this.

Fantastic!

They are called Hang Drum. Unfortunately hey are almost impossible to get a hold of. They are hand made in Switzerland by a couple and they have a two year waiting list, besides the prohibitive cost.
  I was lucky to get a hold of one early on... it goes wonderfully with Shakuhachi...
Here's an little excerpt that a student of mine put up on You tube of a recital we did together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae2gc2OYe-w

Karmajampa wrote:

I put this in the 'shakuhachi related' because I think there is similarity in feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQXn5ba0aT8

K

Brian picked up one of these a few years back. Imagine that?? They are really cool!

Those are really cool... the Swedish seem to have the innate ability to create something remarkably cool & only release a limited number of them... take the SIDstation.

There is also the less elegant propane tank Hank drum with a similar sound for much less http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV2aEeid … re=related and the hapi drum http://www.hapitones.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRGqSHZLqlw You can find make your own videos on youtube as well.

Vevolis wrote:

Those are really cool... the Swedish seem to have the innate ability to create something remarkably cool & only release a limited number of them... take the SIDstation.

The hang drum is Swiss - not Swedish!

Tairaku wrote:

Kiku Day wrote:

The hang drum is Swiss - not Swedish!

Why are Europeans so fussy? It's just "Europe" to the rest of us!

You know, like "Africa". Or "South America." Or "Australia". Or "Antarctica".

See what happens to Americans after they have been in Australia for so long !
Their brains start thinking like Australians !

And for those other Americans who think New Zealand is part of Australia, it is more like Australia is part of New Zealand, but we don't like admitting it in public.

K.

I have a tone drum I use in concerts often. Like others I really wanted a hang drum but they're pretty hard to get and expensive too. I use a Milltone Tone drum, but in the video on my myspace ("Crimson Sky") I'm improvising to a Wadaiko player using my hang drum. It might be a little hard to hear it because we didn't use any mics but the tone fits beautifully.  I finally got to overpower a Taiko player!!!

Kiku Day wrote:

Just jealousy - don't like the neighbours, the sweedes, to get more attention out of having a name close to the Swiss...
Oh just as bad joke...

Ok, we are just FUSSY! 

Nah, you're just Vikings, who haven't got over yourselves yet 

Kiku Day wrote:

Vevolis wrote:

Those are really cool... the Swedish seem to have the innate ability to create something remarkably cool & only release a limited number of them... take the SIDstation.

The hang drum is Swiss - not Swedish!

The lamp in my nightlight globe broke when I was a kid. Thank you for the clarification though, I am aware of the separation between Switzerland & Sweden but the only time I've ever had to differentiate before is at Ikea when asking for Swedish meatballs... which I often refer to as Ikea Meatballs or Corrugated Cardboard in French.

geni wrote:

this is a good link on how to make one yourself.
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/for … p-hang.htm

From that web page:

Pre note: I'm liking this thing a lot more now that a hang drum sold
on E-bay for nearly $10,000 !

Now, NO one, NO one, NO one in the shakuhachi community would think of charging $10,000 for a shakuhachi ...