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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Neptune, John Kaizan in 1982 .

Pentasonic appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Digital 45  (Listen)	Neptune, John Kaizan
Kite  (Listen)	Neptune, John Kaizan
The five basic open-hole tones of the standard shakuhachi give you D, F, G, A, and C. This is the folk scale of Japan and happens to be very close to a D minor blues. I believe the shakuhachi fits into this jazz context very well, as do the classical guitar and string quartet, though none of these instruments are typically found playing Pentasonic blues.