The ji-nashi shakuhachi I have made have no lacquer, no inlay in the mouthpiece.
Muai Eigoro, who has made quite
a few for me put lacquer in sometimes.

Kiku


----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Ost" <igor.ost@...>
To: Euroshak@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Euroshak] Urushi laquer
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 23:22:45 +0200

>
> Hi Kiku,
> I bought the flutes from Perry Yung, but I want to avoid to have to send the
> flute to New York again, because a lot of taxes are involved if I do.
> You say you make jinashi flutes, but even in a a jinashi flute you put a thin
> layer of laquer to protect the flute , don't you?
> Thank you for your reply,
> Igor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kiku@...
> To: Euroshak@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Euroshak] Urushi laquer
>
>
> Hello Igor.
>
> It is good to see that this group, somehow, still is alive and questions
> are posted.
> Unfortunately, I have never heard of a shakuhachi maker in Europe. I do
> make my own instruments but only ji-nashi
> shakuhachi, so I don't have any experience with lacquer.
> There are, however, loads of American makers, who make really good
> shakuhahci. I hope they don't mind me
> posting their e-mail addresses. It shoudld be fine as they may get
> shakuhachi contacts out of it, I guess. Here they
> are:
>
> Ken LaCosse: emptyflute@...
> Monty Levenson: monty@...
> Perry Young: slantgroup@...
> Tom Deaver: tom-tom@...
>
> Ken is based in San Francisco, Monty in northern California, Perry in New
> York, and Tom in Nagano prefecture in
> Japan.
> Hope they can give you some good advice. Perhaps you can tell us on the
> list what kind of result you had as all of us
> may run into problems with our flutes.
>
> Take care,
> Kiku
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Ost" <igor.ost@...>
> To: Euroshak@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Euroshak] Urushi laquer
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 15:58:30 +0200
>
> >
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm Igor Ost and live in Belgium, I started with the shakuhachi last
> summer.
> > I own a 1.8 and a 2.6 shakuhachi.
> >
> > I have some questions about a problem with the laquer in my 2.6 jinashi
> > flute, is there someone on the list who knows how to repair shakuhachi's?
> >
> > I hope this list is still alive...
> >
> > Igor Ost, Horsemanship, meer plezier met je paard.
> > http://users.skynet.be/Quartzo/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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