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iRe: Yin Feng - Shakuhachi
iJanuary 19th, 2018
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i
iI'm absolutely astounded that I found another shakuhachi player on
igopher. Seriously, I'm in awe.
i
iI'll have to pull your gopher hole up on a different device to try
iand decypher your notation system. It didn't come through clearly
iin lynx. I just did a little search and it looks like some of the
icharacters used for notation (the Katakana characters) are
iavailable in UTF-8. Let me give this a try:
i
i     Notes:

i     ロ    - Ro
i     ツ    - Tsu
i     レ    - Re
i     チ    - Chi
i     リ    - Ri
i     ヒ    - Hi
i     ウ    - U
i     イ    - I
i     ル    - Ru
i     コロ  - Ko Ro
i     ゴロ  - Go Ro
i     ヵラ  - Ka Ra

i     Decorations:

i     メ    - Meri
i     ー    - Breath mark
i     ヽ    - Repeated note
i     ゠    - Song ends
i
iI'm not sure how to make reference the vertical speed changes yet,
ibut we can figure things out as we go.
i
iAnd with that, using a vertical 66 column wide R->L format, and
itrying to take into account the japanese double-wide characters,
ihere's a really simple children's song (I really hope this works):
i
i------------------------------------------------------------------
i                            Hinomaru
i------------------------------------------------------------------
i
i                       リ.             ツ.
i                      .ヽ             .ヽ
i                       チ.             レ.
i                      .ツ             .ヽ
i                       レ.             チ.
i                       ー             .ヽ
i                       リ.             レ.
i                      .ヽ              ー
i                       チ.             チ.
i                      .ツ             .ヽ
i                       レ.             リ.
i                      .チ             .ヽ
i                       ツ.             ロ.
i                       ゠             .ヽ
i                                       リ.
i                                       ー
i                                       ロ.
i                                      .ヽ
i
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i
iWhew! That was a bit of work for even a simple song, but I really
ilike the final look of it. Please, please, please work on gopher!
iIf it does, I may transcribe a bunch of my music, including fun
ilittle tunes I improvise.
More Shakuhachi stuff here
i
iYin Feng, you made my whole week!
i