Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

suidan - one phrase - full breath

wow .this is like old times . I remember Genes kyorei questions from the shakuhachi mail serve list before this forum became popular.Is the kyorei you have the one on this page ?


http://www.shakuhachi.cz/en_rec.html

Thank you very much jamesnyman.  I went to Stan Richardson's web site at http://www.stanrichardson.com/index2.html but there was nothing there about any teaching CDs.  However, I've written to him, thank you very much again.

And yes, Baian, I'm right back where I was several years ago.  I started out great guns with the shakuhachi, but then had to make trips to 12 hospitals and 17 physicians, and, being away from the shakuhachi for all that time, I lost almost everything I had learned.  But I'm back again now.  Older, but more enthusiastic than ever.  And yes, that URL you posted is one of the sets of notation which I have for Kyorei.  But I'd still like to find Playing Instructions for Kyorei; they help a lot.

And thank you, Zakarius for your input, and I agree wholly.  I've studied music as a hobby all my life; took piano lessons every week for twelve years.  And I play many instruments.  But, just for an example, I also taught myself how to play the Great Highland Bagpipes by listening to recordings and reading the music along with listening.  It's easy to cheat and pretend to play the pipes, but to play them properly is extraordinarily difficult. Right up with the shakuhachi.   But, when my family and I bought a home up in the Highlands of Scotland and moved over there a couple of years, the Pipe Major of my pipe band said I was the best piper he had.  And I don't say this as a boast, but merely to illustrate that even an extraordinarily difficult instrument can be mastered, if necessary, without a teacher.  I also taught myself the chello, 5-stringed banjo, and other difficult instruments. 

However, I am also currently corresponding with regard to taking monthly lessons by tape or computer.

Thank you very much again.

Gene Neill
Mayo, Florida

Here is the link.

http://www.stanrichardson.com/dojo_lessons.html

Gene wrote:

But, when my family and I bought a home up in the Highlands of Scotland and moved over there a couple of years, the Pipe Major of my pipe band said I was the best piper he had.  And I don't say this as a boast, but merely to illustrate that even an extraordinarily difficult instrument can be mastered, if necessary, without a teacher.  I also taught myself the chello, 5-stringed banjo, and other difficult instruments. 


Gene Neill
Mayo, Florida

Trading pipe und Chello lesons for shakuhachi leson, bier und wurst? Com to Folrida.

Last edited by Horst Xenmeister (2008-01-12 16:23:44)