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This style of shakuhachi is longer and thicker than the older shakuhachi, and its volume, range, scale, and tone are superior to those of the older shakuhachi. It is made from the base of the bamboo, and the average length is 54.5 cm (21.5 in), which corresponds to 1 shaku 8 sun ; the outside diameter is 4 cm (1.6 in), and there are 5 finger ...
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel (クリストファー遙盟, born 1951 in Canyon, Texas) is a shakuhachi performer, researcher and writer specializing in the music of Japan and Asia.
Shakuhachi – vertical bamboo flute used for Zen meditation; Shinobue – transverse folk bamboo flute; Tsuchibue (土笛 (つちぶえ), lit. ' earthen flute ') – globular flute made from clay; Bow flute (弓笛) – a flute developed by Ishida Nehito with bow hair on it to accompany the kokyū [1]
Rinzō Nakao (known professionally as Nakao Tozan, 中尾都山, October 5, 1876 in Ōsaka prefecture to October 10, 1956 in Kyōto, aged 80), was the founder of the most important school of shakuhachi playing in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Japan and was both a performer and prolific composer.
Phil Nyokai James is a professional shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) teacher and performer as well as avant-garde composer. [1] Born in New York City in 1954, James studied shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and Yodo Kurahashi. After receiving his master's license (shihan level), he began teaching and performing throughout the ...
Ken LaCosse (April 9, 1960, in San Jose, California – June 28, 2019, in San Francisco, California) was an American maker of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known particularly for developing a large, wide bore style of shakuhachi called Taimu, with input from shakuhachi player Brian Ritchie .
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Kaoru Kakizakai (柿堺 香, Kakizakai Kaoru, born 1959 in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan) is an internationally renowned performer and teacher of the shakuhachi, a traditional vertical bamboo flute of Japan. Kakizakai studied under and recorded with Yokoyama Katsuya.