Go/No/Hi (ryo) sounds lower than Ro (kan)?
Go/No/Hi (ryo) sounds lower than Ro (kan)?
Hey everyone,
I'm pretty new with shakuhachi - I got one in autumn and have been practicing mainly on my own and with Blasdel's guide since then.
I can produce a tone fairly consistently, and having had some experience with bamboo flutes before the kan range is also slowly revealing itself, which feels great!
I yesterday started looking more into intonation, and actually I just realised that my Ro in ryo is down to a C# or even C. (I am playing on a 1.8 D shakuhachi.)
The awkward thing is that when I play the Ro in kan, it sounds like a D - effectively, when I go up the scale, my Go/No/Hi in ryo sounds like a clear half-step below my Ro in kan. My embouchure and chin position remain virtually identical, and I only change my fingering, yet there is this clear half-tone difference.
I am aware (and have been warned!) that beginners tend to play notes lower than they're supposed to be played - but shouldn't that be reflected in the Kan register too? Which is why I'm confused - the kan register is the proper pitches (ro-kan is a D) but with the same chin position the ro-ryo is a C to C#.
Is it possible that I have been playing ryo in tsu-meri the whole time and didn't realise? It feels very easy and natural to produce the tones as I have been so far, and if I try to change my chin position/embouchure to make my Ro in ryo sound like a D, the sound loses strength.
Is it just a matter of playing the ryo notes with a tuner until I can get them comfortably out at the proper pitch, or is there something else at work here?
I'm pretty new with shakuhachi - I got one in autumn and have been practicing mainly on my own and with Blasdel's guide since then.
I can produce a tone fairly consistently, and having had some experience with bamboo flutes before the kan range is also slowly revealing itself, which feels great!
I yesterday started looking more into intonation, and actually I just realised that my Ro in ryo is down to a C# or even C. (I am playing on a 1.8 D shakuhachi.)
The awkward thing is that when I play the Ro in kan, it sounds like a D - effectively, when I go up the scale, my Go/No/Hi in ryo sounds like a clear half-step below my Ro in kan. My embouchure and chin position remain virtually identical, and I only change my fingering, yet there is this clear half-tone difference.
I am aware (and have been warned!) that beginners tend to play notes lower than they're supposed to be played - but shouldn't that be reflected in the Kan register too? Which is why I'm confused - the kan register is the proper pitches (ro-kan is a D) but with the same chin position the ro-ryo is a C to C#.
Is it possible that I have been playing ryo in tsu-meri the whole time and didn't realise? It feels very easy and natural to produce the tones as I have been so far, and if I try to change my chin position/embouchure to make my Ro in ryo sound like a D, the sound loses strength.
Is it just a matter of playing the ryo notes with a tuner until I can get them comfortably out at the proper pitch, or is there something else at work here?
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