Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Hello everyone.  I hope the summer (or in Tasmania, New Zealand and other parts winter...) finds everyone well and enjoying their shakuhachi playing.  I posted some questions concerning how players outside of Japan are learning traditional pieces about a half a year or so ago and some people were kind enough to answer that but I'd like to ask the questions again, in a more simplified form.  I am interested in learning how people outside of Japan are learning the traditional pieces as some people do not have regular access to a teacher and may be learning long distance or through the occasional workshop, video lessons, cassette tapes, over the Internet,  and on their own from material accessed from shakuhachi related sites, or some combination of the above.  I'd like to be able to collect as much information as possible on this topic as we don't really have many statistics (that I'm aware of) about players outside of Japan and how they are going about learning the traditional music, and if I can gather enough information I'd like to write a little article about it.  So if you can spare a bit of time please try and answer the following questions:

1.  What kind of traditional pieces are you learning?   Honkyoku, gaikyoku, minyo etc.

2.  How long have you been learning or playing traditional Japanese music of any kind?

3.  How have you been learning the traditional pieces?   (choose the most appropriate letter and try and give some specific information)

A) regular lessons with a teacher  (how often?)

B) occasional workshops/ lessons    (how often?)

C)  long distance lessons of some kind - video, cassette tape etc.  (please specify)

D) mostly or completely on my own from Internet sources, tapes, videos, cds, downloaded music etc.
    (please specify what kind of sources)

E)  a combination of the above (please specify)


Many thanks...