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Thread #110424   Message #2473926
Posted By: GUEST,Jack Campin
23-Oct-08 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
: it is supremely ironic you would choose to play such an instrument
: in the first place, being mass-manufactured in a country whose own
: indigenous and traditional musics are about as far from the
: strictures of Western Art Music embodied in the recorder as you
: could wish to get

In fact there is a good arrangement of some Japanese music for the Engrish Frute:

Eight Japanese Pieces for Tenor Recorder

They are not that easy to play and call for some unusual techniques to emulate the shakuhachi. ("Shakuhachi" apparently means "blowjob" in modern colloquial Japanese but that doesn't mean Wavy's technique is called for). I haven't tried to play them for years but I think I only got two or three of them down really well.