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#1 2010-09-06 21:42:39

Tairaku 太楽
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Important gig

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#2 2010-09-06 22:04:06

Elliot K
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Re: Important gig

Yeah! My favorite part of elementary school was Let's Listen to Some Shakuhachi Day!
So what did you play for them?

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#3 2010-09-06 22:13:37

Tairaku 太楽
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Re: Important gig

Elliot K wrote:

Yeah! My favorite part of elementary school was Let's Listen to Some Shakuhachi Day!
So what did you play for them?

It's my niece's school, she's the one holding the other flute.

I played "Sakura", "Twinkle Twinkle" (they sang), "Soran Bushi" (they played shakers and claves) and "Kojo no Tsuki" and talked with them about shakuhachi, Japanese music and music in general. Very cute.


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#4 2010-09-06 22:15:58

Mujitsu
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Re: Important gig

I thought it was your second grade class picture in Milwaukee! Circa 1966.

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#5 2010-09-06 22:21:34

Tairaku 太楽
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Re: Important gig

Um, in Milwaukee 1966 there were only white people.


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#6 2010-09-06 23:05:21

mrwuwu
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Re: Important gig

That girl is lucky she is your niece because she is smashing your utaguchi into the floor!    What's up with that weird fogged effect on most of the upper right of the photo?   Makes the two teachers and some of the kids look like ghosts among the living.


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#7 2010-09-07 00:33:20

edosan
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Re: Important gig

mrwuwu wrote:

What's up with that weird fogged effect on most of the upper right of the photo?   Makes the two teachers and some of the kids look like ghosts among the living.

That part of the image is blown out a bit by lens flare from the daylight coming in that window. Nothing particularly weird about it.

Such a great mob in that picture.

Last edited by edosan (2010-09-07 01:07:26)


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#8 2010-09-07 00:50:36

Tairaku 太楽
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Re: Important gig

edosan wrote:

Such a great mob in that picture.

That's what the future of Queensland might look like. Australia is what America was.


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#9 2010-09-07 01:17:10

Kiku Day
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Re: Important gig

It's a great picture, Tairaku!
I LOVE playing for kids! They listen and react with such honesty.
Cool!
Will you do more of this kind of thing or was it a one off thing because of your connection to the class through the niece?

I am putting together a kiddies music class for 2-3 year olds. Some parents at the meditation center have asked me if I could do so... and even though the kids are 2-3 years old, my plan is to expose them to music around the world... Hope is then that they would be much more understanding about differences. smile

Thanks for sharing the picture!


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that the Christ's breath moves through
listen to this music
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#10 2010-09-07 09:24:47

Tairaku 太楽
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Re: Important gig

Thanks Kiku but I gotta tell ya, one flute I played was jiari and the other, albeit jinashi, is Tozan. wink


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#11 2010-09-07 09:48:09

Kiku Day
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Re: Important gig

Tairaku 太楽 wrote:

Thanks Kiku but I gotta tell ya, one flute I played was jiari and the other, albeit jinashi, is Tozan. wink

Well, I have nothing against neither Tozan nor Jinuri! smile
I was talking about differences in culture - not instrument making! Poor kids that would really put them off music... Ha!


I am a hole in a flute
that the Christ's breath moves through
listen to this music
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#12 2010-09-07 22:16:01

Yungflutes
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Re: Important gig

Cute!

Playing for the little people is so important.
http://yungflutes.com/logphotos/perryclass.jpg

Tairaku wrote:

Um, in Milwaukee 1966 there were only white people.

This is Sasa's 1st  grade class, the South of Harlem, NYC 2010. There is one white person. He's from the Former Yugoslavia.

James Nyman once sent me a beautiful pic of him and his students all holding shakuhachi.


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