My students are playing the Tanso in music class. The tanso looks like a recorder but instead of a plastic mouthpiece there is an indentation that you blow across like a flute. Sort of.
Anyway, the quality of the instruments vary wildly. Some students have new tansos made of plastic resin, while others have varnished wood ones. Some even have ones that look to have been passed down since before the Japanese occupation of 1913. These guys look hollowed out by hand and are bound together by some kind of old wire. I feel bad for these kids. Good think kimchi cures tetanus.
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is there jazz tanso kinda like jazz flute?
chad
i thought that was a piece of bamboo.
I picked up a piece and started whittling on it during n online poker tourney and realized that i was trying to make a simple mouthpiece. The kind that looks like a semi circle or small rectangle carved into the instrument itself with a slight slope carved out on one side. Its a primitive air-hole to blow across. So i got on Google images and started looking and lo and behold; There your misleading picture was! LOL I may be instinctively trying to make a Japanese Tanso myself. (Except that i am Native American.)
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