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[quote="papageno"][quote="Geoffrey Ellis"] And in this discussion, let's not omit the shakuhachi, since it another type of rim blown flute.[/quote] Speaking of the shakuhachi, I decided to try one of those as well. As a total neophyte I didn't feel ready for one of the beauties b...

Another end-blown headjoint design. Monty Levinson's shakalute

http://shakuhachi.com/Q-Models-Headjoint.html

I have one of the Hoza quenas. I bought it from Mark when I visited him in Australia two years ago. It was a fun visit and Mark was very hospitable. His house is in a beautiful area about half way between Sydney and Brisbane. I've never become a quena player, but I believe Mark makes a good instrume...

It's possible that the third character is 'obi' in Japanese which means belt or band as in silver bands. Here's the character 帯 if you have the appropriate font installed. I'll take a more wild guess at the headjoint one and agree with your friend that it means circle. Like this, but enclosed in a s...

I think you'll be happy with the Olympus device. I've heard some nice recordings coming from a WS-something or other, and I have played back the WMA files from one on my linux box with no problem. Not certain about Mac, but if Linux handles it, OSX probably will also. This was of course the unencryp...

Oh, and one comment about Mr. Pitchfork's post. There is one maker that I'm aware of who is making high quality hardwood shakuhachi. His name is David Brown in Australia, near Melbourne if I recall correctly. www.shakuhachi.com.au I have a 2.4 (tuning equivalent to an A flute below D - close to what...

I've been playing shakuhachi for about a year now. I live near Boulder Colorado, and there is a very good teacher here, David Wheeler. There are really very few places in the US where a well qualified teacher is available. There is an active forum community at www.shakuhachiforum.com I had six years...

Mark Hoza has a woodburning tool. He draws/writes each stamp.

Shakuhachi makers might use a device like this one:

http://www.mejiro-japan.com/html/header ... tstamp.htm

I was a math major, but my wife is more of a mathematician than I am. She has a PhD in Atmospheric Science (basically mathematics applied to fluid physics). I do embedded software. I've known a few very good software engineers who were math majors. There are a ton of things you can do with good math...

[quote="Tweeto"]What do you mean “nope”, Mrosenlof? If you go back to my post, you’ll see that the poster I quoted (OneWheelDave) said that shakuhachis have “inlay made out of horn or some other material”. He made that statement as a comparison, after making special effort to point out tha...

Nope, all of the instruments in Mr. Tweeto's post have qunna looking design. Take a look at the instruments for sale at www.japanshakuhachi.com to see several shakuhachi examples. The basic idea is similar between these two beasts. Quenas tend to be smaller than shakuhachi. The quena typically has 7...

It sounds pretty good to me! I haven't recorded flute a lot, but the microphone configurations that have worked for me are 1) Mic inline with the flute body pointing directly at the cap of the headjoint 2) Mic perpendicular to the flute body pointing about at the headjoint socket. In both cases, as ...

There is an 'earlyflute' mailing list or something like that over in Yahoo groups. I don't currently subscribe, but it was moderately active, mostly baroque flute players, but some other topics.

Rabbit ears, and throwing the whole thing off the roof are the best alternatives that come to mind for me.

I'm a relative beginner at shakuhachi also. (despite my avatar) Started in March of this year, studying with David Wheeler in Boulder Colorado. It's been a lot of fun so far, certainly helped by my 6+ years on the flute before this. I'm continuing silver flute lessons also. Sometimes it's feeling a ...