Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Oh well, Hi.

I came to shakuhachi through a rather wierd path.  I have a compulsion to modify and make musical instruments and this has included flutes.  After tooting on an Irish low whistle with the fipple cut off for a few years, and reading everything I could find about making shakuhachi, I decided to get one of these rippin' flutes.  I've gotten one of the cheep wooden ones with the intention of modifying it, which I'm buisy doing.  I play experimentally and improvisationally and love it.  Fortunately, my downstairs neighbours have a loud kid so I can get away with playing all the time.  These days he's been singing along with me, through the open windows.  His mother is a saint.

I have a page on flutes from around the world that have gutsyness to them.  I know I could list more shakuhachi pages but it's just a sampling for people who don't know what a shakuhachi is.  If you're interested, it's at: http://treeoflifestudio.ca/FlutesWithGuts.shtml

If you want to look at a few of my rather unconventional flutes that have taught me to play, there's: http://treeoflifestudio.ca/MyFlutes.shtml .  The page doesn't include all the plumbing pipes or the big fat thing I call a shakudidge.

Oh, and I live in Canada.  I'm living in Ottawa but I left half my heart in Toronto.

Thanks for all your interesting posts and websites.  I've been reading them for quite some time.

Kim

Last edited by October Alley (2006-07-24 15:07:11)