----- Original Message -----

From: Justin .

To: Euroshak@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:45 PM

Subject: Re: [Euroshak] Urushi laquer

Hi Igor
I'm in the UK. I have made ji-nashi flutes with
laquered bores. I have urushi with me. Feel free to
contact me if you like. What is the prob;em anyway?
Justin

--- Igor Ost <igor.ost@...> wrote:
> 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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