For my English-speaking friends: SHO "This is called a Sho, or sometimes a Hosho with the cupped part on the bottom, which has 17 holes for the 17 bamboo sticks, each about 1 cm in diameter, to go into. It is capable of 5 or 6 'aitake' ('bamboo together') which allows the playing of chords. The length of the bamboo to the hole determines the note -- shorter for higher and longer for lower. It's the same mechanics as a pipe organ. "The metallic reed is attached to the bamboo by a boiled mixture of pine resin and nectar (honey), so if it gets cold the sticky wax doesn't hold it together well. We bring it up to the right temperature to make it adhere well and produce a good sound. "Often the Sho is described as the echoes of the Heavens. If you go to the temples, the heavenly women are depicted playing instruments and the one playing the Sho is usually the highest. The Hichiriki, the vertical flute, is said to have been made to liken the human voice, thereby representing the Earth. So that's Heaven and Earth. And the Ryuteki, the horizontal flute, represents the Dragon that flies freely between the two worlds, connecting them. Thus the three instruments represent the entire universe." HICHIRIKI "It's a pipe about 18 cm long, painted on the inside with lacquer. A reed made of a literal reed is placed into the end, with some paper wrapped around it to make it fit snugly. "We don't know for sure where or when it originated, although I believe it took this form after it was brought into Japan. It seems to have come from Turkey or thereabouts, where they still use an instrument called a 'barabahn' in the military bands. It's a very simple music that sounds like it comes from the borderlands of the East and the West. What developed Westward is the double reed, like the Oboe or the Fagotto (Bassoon). What developed Eastward is the Chinese Guanzi and later the Japanese Hichiriki." RYUTEKI "As the name indicates, the Ryuteki is the pipe of the Dragon. Both it and the Hichiriki play the melody, but where the Hichiriki usually plays the main melody, the Ryuteki plays a more intricate, embellished part. KOMABUE "It's not much different in length than the Ryuteki, so the sound is only different by 2 degrees, but because the pipe is smaller (narrower) the sound seems much lighter and much higher. It does give a much lighter feeling to the sound, though."
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For my English-speaking friends:
SHO
"This is called a Sho, or sometimes a Hosho with the cupped part on the bottom, which has 17 holes for the 17 bamboo sticks, each about 1 cm in diameter, to go into. It is capable of 5 or 6 'aitake' ('bamboo together') which allows the playing of chords. The length of the bamboo to the hole determines the note -- shorter for higher and longer for lower. It's the same mechanics as a pipe organ.
"The metallic reed is attached to the bamboo by a boiled mixture of pine resin and nectar (honey), so if it gets cold the sticky wax doesn't hold it together well. We bring it up to the right temperature to make it adhere well and produce a good sound.
"Often the Sho is described as the echoes of the Heavens. If you go to the temples, the heavenly women are depicted playing instruments and the one playing the Sho is usually the highest. The Hichiriki, the vertical flute, is said to have been made to liken the human voice, thereby representing the Earth. So that's Heaven and Earth. And the Ryuteki, the horizontal flute, represents the Dragon that flies freely between the two worlds, connecting them. Thus the three instruments represent the entire universe."
HICHIRIKI
"It's a pipe about 18 cm long, painted on the inside with lacquer. A reed made of a literal reed is placed into the end, with some paper wrapped around it to make it fit snugly.
"We don't know for sure where or when it originated, although I believe it took this form after it was brought into Japan. It seems to have come from Turkey or thereabouts, where they still use an instrument called a 'barabahn' in the military bands. It's a very simple music that sounds like it comes from the borderlands of the East and the West. What developed Westward is the double reed, like the Oboe or the Fagotto (Bassoon). What developed Eastward is the Chinese Guanzi and later the Japanese Hichiriki."
RYUTEKI
"As the name indicates, the Ryuteki is the pipe of the Dragon. Both it and the Hichiriki play the melody, but where the Hichiriki usually plays the main melody, the Ryuteki plays a more intricate, embellished part.
KOMABUE
"It's not much different in length than the Ryuteki, so the sound is only different by 2 degrees, but because the pipe is smaller (narrower) the sound seems much lighter and much higher. It does give a much lighter feeling to the sound, though."
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