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November 21, 2006
Old/New shakuhachi Cap design
Hi all, I had an order this week for an EARTH Model shakuhachi from a nice woman who wanted to get her son a shakuhachi. Turns out he is a vegan so I couldn't offer my normal leather Chikusing design utaguchi cap. I was trying to think of a good replacement but didn't want to use pleather. Then, I remembered this design based on an old cap I once saw on an antique flute in Kyoto. I call this one the Chikucapu (Chiku is bamboo in old Japanese and Capu is Cap in contemporary Japanese language).
I cut the top from an off-cut of the same piece of bamboo. In this case, it was Chinese Madake I personally sourced and had harvested in 2002 in Zhejiang, China.
I eyed the angles and was lucky it came out close. I then just file a bit to fit it better.
Purple velvet seemed like a good color to wrap around the cork (1996 Sonoma Zinfadel)
I hope this will become a vintage year for Yung Flutes.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Namaste, Perry
Posted by Perry Yung at November 21, 2006 03:26 PM