Greetings & salutations forum folk,
My name is Christian, from the fair city of Nottingham and quite recently I've started a love affair with the Japanese flute![Smile]()
A couple of years ago I picked up my first musical instrument - The Native American style flute and took to it right away, my interest grew, leading me to embrace the rim blown Anasazi & Mojave style flutes with which I could lose myself for hours. Natural progression led me to the Shakuhachi. My first was a 1.8 Jinashi by Steve Shepard, closely followed by a lucky find of a bargain 1.8 Golden Phoenix in immaculate condition with another bargain hot in it's heels - A Jem Klein Meditation flute. My love of the deep tones of my Anasazi flutes brought a 2.6 Jinashi into my life this week, which is proving an interesting challenge - I play right hand on top & this bass flute is naturally offset for lefties. Sure I will get the hang of it![Smile]()
Currently I'm getting to know these instruments, playing my own style, seeing what we are capable of. In the future I would like to learn some tradition tunes, when I've become competent.
For now, I will leave these words that came after playing, my friend Tom provided the artwork -
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My name is Christian, from the fair city of Nottingham and quite recently I've started a love affair with the Japanese flute
A couple of years ago I picked up my first musical instrument - The Native American style flute and took to it right away, my interest grew, leading me to embrace the rim blown Anasazi & Mojave style flutes with which I could lose myself for hours. Natural progression led me to the Shakuhachi. My first was a 1.8 Jinashi by Steve Shepard, closely followed by a lucky find of a bargain 1.8 Golden Phoenix in immaculate condition with another bargain hot in it's heels - A Jem Klein Meditation flute. My love of the deep tones of my Anasazi flutes brought a 2.6 Jinashi into my life this week, which is proving an interesting challenge - I play right hand on top & this bass flute is naturally offset for lefties. Sure I will get the hang of it
Currently I'm getting to know these instruments, playing my own style, seeing what we are capable of. In the future I would like to learn some tradition tunes, when I've become competent.
For now, I will leave these words that came after playing, my friend Tom provided the artwork -
Post: http://www.shakuhachiforum.eu/t1556-Salutations.htm