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This study pack includes: Book blow your mind ride your tone (spanish or english), Flute certificate of authenticity, blowing and notation instructions sheet (fingering chart according to the key of the flute), clothing bag made of resistant fabric to protect the instrument (cloth bag is delivered according to availability, reference photo). Flute stand sold separately.
About the flute:
From bamboo forests to the stage!. The Nenashi Series 根無し (meaning “rootless”) is our practice line of jinashi flutes. Made with bamboo sections distant from the root end.
This instrument offers exceptional resonance, lightness and balance, ideal for long playing sessions and travel. Made of lightweight rootless resistant bamboo with great resonance, very comfortable to handle and play.
Our jinashi shakuhachi rootless series is a beginner students practice range and is considered one of the best options for getting started in the art of shakuhachi at a low cost, while still having an excellent starter instrument in your hands.
Our new generation of Practice Shakuhachi Jinashi offers the internal coating technology of a thin inner layer of non-toxic varnish that protects the instrument and allows for better internal cleaning, preventing pathogens that saliva or other external agents can cause from lodging inside the tube, while preserving its rustic texture that keeps its authentic natural dark sound, a unique traditional earthy, dirty, bass-oriented tone with medium and subdued treble. This flute has a natural blowing edge. Exterior bamboo body polished and moisturized with almond oil. Made of 100% Colombian materials that prioritizes sustainable practices.
About the book:
🎵 This book comes with audio recordings of the study sonatas. An MP3 download code will be provided after you complete your purchase. 🎵
Enhance your learning of the instrument and understand the shakuhachi from the experience, tips and secrets that this shakuhachi master shares with you. Learn in this book how to give personality and shape to your timbre and create your own tone from zero.
Blow your mind, Ride your tone. Conquer the shakuhachi, discover your inner singing! Learn the secrets of the Mumon Ryu system and how to achieve mastery of one of the world's most complex instruments. Zapata sensei shares his own path on how to become a master of the shakuhachi by discovering your own tone. The book offers magnificent inputs and great insights on how to play and understand shakuhachi technique. Learn full of life lessons and Zen Buddhist philosophy and history while gaining enlightened knowledge about this mystical instrument. Contains detailed technical information on precision mouthpiece making, blowing techniques, important shakuhachi specifications, notation, fingering, Japanese grammar and special microtonal fingering techniques.The shakuhachi is a complex instrument to master; imprecise, rustic and full of magic sound. It demands perfection from the artist who plays it, it demands everything from him to show his true inner song, from his breath and through a simple piece of bamboo.
This book illustrates, guides and gives solid bases for those who wish to discover and control their own tone and breath, not only in the use of the instrument as a musical tool, but also to face their own character in the search for perfection and self-discovery through practice. The shakuhachi was employed as a meditative tool by the extinct Komuso Buddhist monks of feudal Japan, it is an intimate vehicle linked to personality development and self-discovery, which can help strengthen patience and the conquest of personal mastery.
The masters of the Fuke-shu Buddhist sect, shakuhachi practitioners, understood that Zen could be practiced not only from a cushion (zazen), but from many activities of our life. Zen is not static, Zen is dynamic. Zen is silence and sound through the bamboo.
With this book you can begin your studies, learn the basic techniques of using the instrument as well as the best tips on how to achieve your own shakuhachi mastery and meditative discipline through blowing. Explore advanced blowing techniques unique to the Mumon Ryu Shakuhachi system such as the Harmonizer (simultaneous sound and singing) and learn technical details about the precision shakuhachi mouthpieces created by Master Zapata, a great design contribution to the history of this ancient instrument.
( ! ) Reference photos. All of our Shakuhachi flutes in this series are similar in bamboo appearance and aesthetics. The other decorative items shown in the photographs, other than the flute and cloth bag, are not included with the purchase of this product ( ! ).
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( ! ) Each Shakuhachi is inspected and handcrafted by the master Ricardo Zapata. Professional bamboo flute instrument of high quality. All the zen flutes are made of selected colombian bamboo and each of them is labeled with the hanko of Ricardo Zapata (logo seal). This instrument has been accurately tuned. Quality audition proof to the owner personally made by Zapata Sensei to demonstrate the tuning and audio perfection for this instrument. ( ! )
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Beginner Study Pack - Jinashi Shakuhachi Rootless and book
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Enjoy your blowing & sound experience with this wonderful instrument. Feel free to contact us through our official channels on this page if you have any questions. We are always willing to answer.