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Index Pages 3-9 ESS Summer School 2007 by Adrian Bain Pages 10-12 CD Review – Re-release of Yamaguchi’s ‘A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky’ by Clive Bell Pages 13-28 A Shakuhachi Adventure in Japan by Adrian Bain Pages 29-34 Zazen and Shakuhachi Making by Alfred Lerch Pages 34-35 Tribute to YOKOYAKA Katsuya’s mother Pages 35-40 Prague Summer School 2007 by Adrian Bain 2
E.S.S. Summer School 2007 by Adrian Bain On my way from England, waiting for my sixth train of the day at the French station of Colmar, a stranger came towards me and asked me in a wonderful French accent “Shaku’achi?”. I was taken by surprise. “Pardon?”, I asked nervously. “Shaku’achi?”, he repeated. “Er…yes…how did you know?”. He pointed to a 2.5 ji-nashi behind me, sticking out of the top of my rucksack. Oh! Oh, yes - a bit of a clue! “Me too!”, he said. One became two and Rémi of Brittany and I continued together on the last leg of our journey to the 2007 European Shakuhachi Society Summer School. We had arrived quite early at the Grand Hotel in Munster and over the afternoon and evening observed the arrival of Shakuhachi players from all over Europe and Japan. This influx was later observed from the comfort of the hotel bar. I noticed that it is possible to recognise a Shakuhachi Furuya & Watanabe Photo by Adrian Bain player when they walk into a room, even without their instrument. There was a jovial atmosphere in the bar as more and more people arrived throughout the evening, some knew each other, many new acquaintances. I have never seen so many Shakuhachi players! Furuya Photo by Annelies Nederbragt We were distributed between rooms in the hotel and surrounding cabins; many crept quietly into their new lodgings in the dark, once the bar had closed, with no idea as to who the other occupants were. At breakfast, I was talking to a new acquaintance for half an hour and then realised we had unknowingly slept in the same cabin overnight. Except that he hadn’t actually slept much due to the multi-lingual snoring of the four other strangers in the room. He was already arranging to change rooms! It is thanks to Jim Franklin and Veronique Piron that we were there at all. Only days before they were informed that the place we were to be staying and playing at, the Maison du Kleebach, had not completed its renovations and resembled a building site. We could still hold our classes there, but no accommodation would be available. How do you find accommodation for around 60 people, in 3
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Page 9 and 10: The E.S.S. AGM was held during the
Page 11 and 12: Yamaguchi performs both pieces on a
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Page 18 and 19: Okuda said he had a 2.5 jinashi nob
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Page 24 and 25: Meine Shakuhachi - Reise begann, al
Page 26 and 27: Ich fand einen ruhigen Platz unter
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Page 38 and 39: amazing sounds, while Vlastislav wo
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