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October 29, 2007
Shakuhachi Camp Flute Making workshop
Hi All, I'm posting this event here in case you haven't read about it on the International shakuhachi Forum. Here's the blurb from Sensei Michael:
I am very happy to be having Perry Yung as our guest at my Shakuhachi Camp in Delaware, Ohio at the end of November. As a shakuhachi player, how you think and feel about your shakuhachi is so important. If you understand this, you can understand how indebted to and dependant upon the shakuhachi craftsmen we players are. I believe that there are ideas about shakuhachi which are born from inexperience of any 'hands on' work with making shakuhachi and from not having a chance to spend much time with craftsmen who make them. In my mind, this creates what I would call an unhealthy and 'improper appreciation' of the instrument and the craftsmen who make them. This workshop gives us all a chance to create a healthy and real relationship with the craft and craftsman. I hope many of you can join Perry and myself for a weekend of studying how to make the shakuhachi and also how to play the shakuhachi.
Camp Date: Nov.30~Dec.2
Place: Stratford Ecological Center, Delaware, Ohio (Near Columbus, OH)
Transportation to and from Columbus International Airport provided.
Fee: $270. Includes cost of bamboo, lessons and meals. Out-of-towners add $30 for prepared meals. For root end add $80.
Songs for study:
Honkyoku: Sanya: Yokoyama Katsuya version.
Modern: Makiri, Yokoyama Katsuya solo composition for 1.8.
Duet: Azuma no Kyoku for 1.8 & 2.0
Trio: Sanya Sugagaki for 1.8,2.0 & 2.4.
Kumoi Jishi for 1.8 & 2.0
For me info. Contact: Michael Gould, email: chikuzen@earthlink.net or Perry Yung at perry@yungflutes.com
Michael Chikuzen Gould
2641 Idlewood Rd. 2F
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
(313)600-2610
Making and playing your own shakuhachi flute can be a immensely gratifying life experience. For me, there are few things in this world more joyful than waking up and blowing Choshi on a flute that I made. Join me in a personal shakuhachi making workshop devoted to crafting your own unique Jinashi flute out of real bamboo. I will share some of the traditional techniques I learned while studying under Kinya Sogawa, a professional maker and player in Japan who was an uchi deshi (live-in apprentice) of Chikusen Tamai. We will focus on how to make a simple yet fully functional bamboo shakuhachi in the Jinashi style with no additives. Participants will choose a piece of bamboo and take that raw material from the beginning stages of drilling out the nodes, cutting the utaguchi blowing edge and drilling finger holes to refining the utaguchi angles and fine tuning the tones holes. By the end of the workshop, everyone will be able to play a shakuhachi crafted by their own hands. This experience will allow the participants to deepen their relationship with the instrument and the music it was made to play. Those interested in a root end piece can contact me directly for availability of lengths.
I hope you can come! - Perry
Posted by Perry Yung at October 29, 2007 10:50 PM