2.8 Taimu shakuhachi (giant Zen bamboo flute) improvisation at Ancient Oak by Cornelius Boots

October 2, 2011 performance as part of the 2011 Art in Nature/Nature of Art Festival in Redwood Park in Oakland, CA.

Taimu shakuhachi: it is like the cello/trombone/Barry White of the shakuhachi world. The Taimu excels at achieving a tone that is very earthy and glowing at the same time as projecting more than older style large Zen bamboo flutes (hocchiku, kyotaku for instance.)
Taimu are made by Mujitsu Shakuhachi in San Francisco and more information about Taimu and mukyoku can be found on this website:
http://www.mujitsu.com/mukyoku/

A full-length CD featuring 13 pieces written for Taimu shakuhachi is now available at CD Baby: go to http://www.cdbaby.com/corneliusboots]

Cornelius Boots is an East Bay reed renegade known primarily as the leader and composer of the world's only original bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles. He has been dabbling in shakuhachi for over 10 years and is now getting goal-oriented and seeking his shihan (teaching license) from his teacher, Michael Chikuzen Gould.

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