Shakuhachi!

Hey hey, today I went to a shakuhachi workshop. The shakuhachi is a traditional Japanese flute, originally used for meditation by monks! Anyway, it is very pretty if you can play it well. It’s a bit difficult to produce a sound at first, and takes heaps of practice to get a nice consistent sound. So it was just $5 for this quick little workshop, but that’s just cause the guy wanted to sell a few flutes. I have one now which I can choose to pay off in full, or return soon. I think I will keep it though. It’s $100 which is very cheap for a musical instrument, but I think it will be nice to practise on, and when I manage to produce a tone, it sounds very nice ^^. In the hands of a pro it would be awesome. Pity I’m only a beginner ^^. Well, I seem to have quite a nice collection of flutes now, despite the fact I can’t play any of them haha.

So here it is! My flute collection (click to see the full size picture)! From left to right starting with the little bowly thing that you probably don’t believe is a flute, we have the little bowly thing (I don’t know what it’s called haha) from China, Chinese pan pipes, Andean pan pipes, a Chinese… well… it’s a reed instrument, a Chinese flute called a Xiao, and finally a Japanese shakuhachi with the sellers label still attached haha. Funny considering I studied percussion. haha. Maybe sometime I’ll take a picture of all my percussion instruments.

So, if you can play shakuhachi, drop me a line and give me a few pointers . Right now, I certainly need all the help I can get…