Name of the making dojo: Bamboo Temple
As it was said about one of characters from a well-known fairy-tale about The Moomins, if I am not mistaken, it is Snufkin “no one knows where and when he was born, but the harmonica was always with him”. As for me, everything is the same, only the instrument differs, in my case it is flutes. Speaking seriously, of course I learnt and am continuing to learn from many people, masters. However, they are not all Shakuhachi masters, they may be absolutely various people, and not only people…I consider Georgy Mnatsakanov and Dmitry Kalinin, best Shakuhachi and Hocchiku players in Russia to be my teachers.
The main important thing is the process of instrument creation and everything which is connected with it. It is always something new, fresh, and unexpected.
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