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#1 2009-09-15 21:48:01
Glorious failures
I was going through some piles in the shop and came across some unfinished bombs from throughout the years. Just a sample of many!
From top to bottom:
Extra long serpent shakuhachi with a much too thin aspect ratio. Weak low end.
Bamboo stuffed with 1" PVC. Muffled tone. Unnecessary.
Half serpent with broken neck. Top end is long gone.
Cast bore "positive" mandrel stuck forever inside flute.
3/4 inch PVC stuffed inside 1" PVC. Dead tone. Unnecessary.
Attempt at a wide bore shakuhachi. Awful!
Moral of the story - Be fearless! Try everything! Fall down! Persevere!
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#2 2009-09-15 22:48:41
- ABRAXAS
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Re: Glorious failures
Haha! Inspiring!
I'm starting to look differently at the cast iron plumbing I ripped out of the walls of my 100 year old house! Maybe there's a shakuhachi in there somewhere waiting to happen. 
"Shakuhachi music stirs up both gods and demons." -- Ikkyu.
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#3 2009-09-16 09:00:15
- lowonthetotem
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Re: Glorious failures
You've got to learn how to fall before you learn to fly.
"Turn like a wheel inside a wheel."
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#4 2009-09-16 17:09:27
- Karmajampa
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Re: Glorious failures
It is a bold and courageous moment to cut up a failed shakuhachi and use it as kindling to start my open fire, bbut also wonderful thing that that piece of bamboo can still be useful.
kel.
Kia Kaha !
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#5 2009-09-16 17:19:14
Re: Glorious failures
Ken, you are a genius! I might call some stuff in my PhD as 'glorious failures' ! I will quote you!
I am a hole in a flute
that the Christ's breath moves through
listen to this music
Hafiz
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#6 2009-09-16 19:54:29
- Musgo da Pedra
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Re: Glorious failures
hahahahaha
Great man! Great!
Omnia mea mecum porto
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#7 2009-09-16 21:10:26
- Yooper
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Re: Glorious failures
The top one is my favorite, but then I'm a big fan of Dr. Seuss. Did it grow like that, or did you bend it?
"Simple and artless."
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#8 2009-09-17 09:39:26
- edosan
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Re: Glorious failures
Yooper wrote:
The top one is my favorite, but then I'm a big fan of Dr. Seuss. Did it grow like that, or did you bend it?
It's a little-known variety: kinkystachys bambusoides. Grown indoors in pots and watered only with green tea.
Zen is not easy.
It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
Bupkes.
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#9 2009-09-18 08:54:32
Re: Glorious failures
Yooper wrote:
The top one is my favorite, but then I'm a big fan of Dr. Seuss. Did it grow like that, or did you bend it?
Mark,
The flute begins as one piece. The bends are made by a series of angled cuts which are rotated then glued. Alan experimented with rubber which is probably more efficient.
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