Last night I sent an email to Rinban Sakamoto saying I won't be making the shakuhachi club meeting tonight or the performance at the temple service on Sunday. "Family stuff", I said and left it at that.
I guess I am just plain done with the shakuhachi. I doubt I could convince many people to play it regardless of how good an "ambassador" I could be, since it's just plain hard to play.
An end-blown flute that tuned and has the same fingering as the pennywhistle would be neat, because it would piggyback onto the huge amount of material for the pennywhistle, with the sound of a flute vs. a "fipple flute" AKA a whistle. But truth be known anyone who's interested in that fingering system and tuning and playing position is going to get into the pennywhistle and there are some really good-sounding whistles and whistle players out there.
Plus all the people having fun with recorders so there's no crying need in any of these areas.
I don't plan now to join the temple, since I'm never up early enough to go to the services on Sundays and I've been missing most of the things going on anyway. It makes the most sense if you're Japanese or married into a Japanese family, and want/need to do family stuff.
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