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Shakuhachi Flute - Instructional Playing Guides

PG-24 Bob Berlin-Grous & Monty H. Levenson THE SOUND OF BAMBOO: Blowing Zen & the Spirit of Shakuhachi
Book
PG-23 Gunnar Jinmei Linder NOTES ON KINKO-RYU SHAKUHACHI HONKYOKU - Performance Techniques: Analysis, Classification, Explanation
Book & 3 CDs
PG-2 Yoshinobu Taniguchi HOW TO PLAY THE SHAKUHACHI: A Guide to the Japanese Bamboo Flute
Book & CD
PG-11 Yoshinobu Taniguchi
& Michael Gould
HOW TO PLAY CLASSICAL SHAKUHACHI - Book 1
Book
PG-4 Takashi Tokuyama
(with Barry Nyosui Weiss)
TAKE-NO-MICHI: THE PATH OF BAMBOO: A Beginner's Guide to Learning Shakuhachi Honkyoku
Book & CD
PG-7 Carl Abbott BLOWING ZEN: One Breath, One Mind
Book & CD
PG-8 John Kaizan Neptune SHAKUHACHI: A Tozan Playing Guide
Book & CD
PG-9 Robert Grous INTRODUCTORY MANUAL FOR KINKO HONKYOKU
Book
PG-17 James Nyoraku Schlefer SHAKUHACHI WORKBOOK: Daily Practice Exercises for Technical Development
Book & CD
PG-18 James Nyoraku Schlefer THE PRACTICAL SHAKUHACHI WORKBOOK: Etudes for Technical Development
Book
PG-10 Hozan Yamamoto SHAKUHACHI PLAYING GUIDE: 5-Line Notation
Book

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Shakuhachi Flute - Instructional Videos

V-4 Bruce Huebner KINKO SHAKUHACHI FOR BEGINNERS:
A Video Lesson in English (Vol. 1)
DVD or VHS
V-5 Bruce Huebner
with Rikako Takemura
KINKO SHAKUHACHI & JIUTA ENSEMBLE:
A Video Lesson in English (Vol. 2)
DVD or VHS
V-6 Bruce Huebner
with Gunnar Jinmei Linder
HOW TO PLAY KINKO SHAKUHACHI HONKYOKU:
A Video Lesson in English (Vol. 3)
DVD or VHS
V-1 Bruce Huebner with Jonathan Katz JAZZ SHAKUHACHI (Dual Language - English & Japanese)
Book & DVD

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Shakuhachi Society Journals

BK-19 Philip Suimei Horan & Michael Soumei Coxall , eds. The EUROPEAN SHAKUHACHI SOCIETY JOURNAL - Volume 1
Book
BK-1 Dan E. Mayers, ed. ANNALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKUHACHI SOCIETY - Volume 1
Book
BK-16 Dan E. Mayers, ed. ANNALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKUHACHI SOCIETY - Volume. 2
Book

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Shakuhachi Flute Books

BK-1 Dan E. Mayers, ed. ANNALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKUHACHI SOCIETY - Volume 1
Book
BK-16 Dan E. Mayers, ed. ANNALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHAKUHACHI SOCIETY - Volume 2
Book
BK-14 Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin
& Barbara Lee Krooss
SUI ZEN: Blowing Meditation on the Shakuhachi
Book & 5 CD
BK-13 Christopher Yohmei Blasdel THE SINGLE TONE: A Personal Journey into Shakuhachi Music
Book
BK-12 Torsten Olafsson KAIDÔ HONSOKU (1628)THE KOMOSÔ'S FUKE SHAKUHACHI CREDO: On Early 17th Century Ascetic Shakuhachi Ideology
Book & CD
BK-11 Tarchin Hearn SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR THE WORLD: A Shakuhachi Sadhana
Book
BK-15 Ray Brooks

BLOWING ZEN: Finding an Authentic Life

Book

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Shakuhachi Flute Dissertations

BK-9 Riley K. Lee YEARNING FOR THE BELL: A Study of Transmission in the Shakuhachi Honkyoku Tradition
Book
BK-2 Andreas B. Gutzwiller SHAKUHACHI: Aspects of History, Practice & Teaching
Book
BK-10 Tone Takahashi TOZAN RYU: An Innovation of the Shakuhachi Tradition from Fuke-shu to Secularism
Book
  Dr. Lauren Rubin The Shakuhachi and the Didjeridu : two case studies of historical iconology, performance practice and their relation to avian respiration and song
Free
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Koto

PG-K-1 Kayoko Wakita KOTO MANUAL: Ikuta Style
Book
V-20 Reiko Obata YOU CAN PLAY KOTO
DVD

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North Indian Bansuri Flute

V-21 G. S. Sachdev THE BASICS OF THE BANSURI FLUTE
2-DVDs
PG-22 Joshua Geisler THE CHROMATIC BANSURI: A Cross-Cultural Guide to Learning the North Indian Bansuri Flute
Book
PG-13 Lyon Leifer HOW TO PLAY THE BANSURI: A Manual for Self-Instruction based on the Teachings of Devendra Murdeshwar
Book & CD
V-3 Jeff Whittier PLAYING THE BANSURI: A Manual for the North Indian Flute
Book & DVD

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Native North American Flute

PG-N-1 R. Carlos Nakai & James DeMars THE ART OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE
Book
PG-N-2 Tim R Crawford with Dr. Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl, Ed. FLUTE MAGIC: An Introduction to the Native American Flute (3rd Edition)
Book
PG-N-3 John Vames THE NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE: Understanding the Gift
Book & CD
PG-N-4 John Vames SONG FOR KOKO: Jazz for the Native American Flute
Book & CD

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South American Flutes - Kena & Panpipes

PG-19 Andrew Taher KENA: Ancient Flute of the Andes
Book & CD
PG-20 Andrew Taher SIKU: Ancient Flute of the Andes
Book & CD

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Chinese Dizi Flute

PG-14 Tim Liu HOW TO PLAY THE DIZI: A Complete Instructional Course for the Chinese Bamboo Flute
Book/ 4 CDs/
1 DVD/
& Flute

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Silver Flute & Bamboo Side-Blown Flute

PG-15
PG-15 Mark Shepard HOW TO LOVE YOUR FLUTE: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing
Book

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Books on Music

BK-9 William P. Malm TRADITIONAL JAPANESE MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (Revised Edition)
Book & CD
BK-8 Bob Fink NEANDERTHAL FLUTE: Oldest Known Musical Instrument Plays Notes of Do, Re, Mi Scale
Book

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