Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Hello everyone, I'm a college student in upstate new york and I only started playing shakuhachi about 3 months ago. I came upon the shakuhachi almost by accident, looking around on wikipedia at different kinds of world instruments. I immediately fell in love with the look and sound of the bamboo and (since I live in a city and am of modest means) bought some PVC and made myself a decent little 2.0. I spent about 3 weeks trying to get my first sound and since then I've played several hours every day. Once I got that first sound I thought it would be better to learn on a better made instrument, so I bought one of Perry Yung's earth flutes. I have a naturally frenetic mind, but there's something about the sound of the shakuhachi that I find so soothing and beautiful. I often play it right before bed and focus on its sound to help drift me off to sleep. Someday soon I hope to harvest myself some really big madake that grows near a small house my family owns in Mass and make some giant Watazumi style hocchiku. In any case I'm very glad to have found this forum and I look forward to getting to know all of the shakuhachi enthusiasts here.