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December 17, 2006
New Bass Choukan Hocchiku!
Hi All, I'm, really getting into making Hocchiku these days. I just love the smell of bamboo when Iplay. Here is a new 2.4 Hocchiku. It's a wide bore flute with large finger holes.
A more blunt cut utaguchi like in the olden days. I find myself changing the angles in the interior so that it maintains the proper degrees so as to split the airstream better. This also makes it more able to handle modern shakuhachi embouchure techniques. Without doing so, it sounds like the older flutes but with less manueverability.
A tasty root for those who like bamboo shoots!
Namaste, Perry
Posted by Perry Yung at December 17, 2006 06:35 PM