www.shakuhachi.com Monty makes amazing instruments, and seems to have all the
Bart Hopkin books in stock, if you want a replacement.

>Was kind of
>hoping the internet was a good place to exchange ideas and get help >building
instruments.

Partch took an adult education woodworking class to build his first Kithara, as
you probably know. They(the classes)'re harder to find nowadays but around.

Kraig Grady and Alison Monteith are amazing, and would probably help as much as
[virtually] possible.

I say, To hell with recorded music, go visit these people if you can, play with
them, have coffee, tacos, and more endless actual paper sheets of scales and
formulae--BUT...you got them from out of someone's very own file cabinets, so
they're permeated with the air of that person's home, and they personally
explained to you what and why and coughed in your ear.

I won't ever forget the afternoon I spent at Ivor's house, and it's not
cluttering my 'hard-drive' in the least...

Cheers,

Pete

PS as to enticing players: College kids LOVE doing gamelan, and they don't feel
like they're in the ear-training class from hell. Quite the opposite!




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