Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

I have just started to play my side blown shakuhachi and after a little breakthrough, i can produce notes. It takes me awhile to redo them after i stop playing, but sometimes with the note, i also get a kind of additional whistle like sound, sometimes quiet or sometimes very loud.

Is this some byproduct of how i am blowing? How exactly do i blow into the hole, do i let some air skim across and away or try to focus all of it inside?

Any help is appreciated, i am very glad that i can produce some coarse notes that sound like the sounds of a real shakuhachi make :]

Edit: Ok, after some more practice, i can now get a nice reverb like note from all holes by changing my mouth placement. The notes are clear, but it seems to me that my breath whence playing them is a bit loud, am i using too much air or something?

Last edited by faetri (2008-04-12 17:03:55)