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Mushirabe

無調

[Genre]Modern Honkyoku
[School]Dokyoku / Chikushinkai

Mushirabe appears on the following albums

Album Artist
Play ButtonHotchiku (CD) Shakuhachi : Watazumi Doso Roshi
("No Tuning")

The Shirabe piece that contains no tuning at all is called Mu-Shirabe. It comes from the Kanto region of Japan, and although it was originally intended solely for testing the capabilities of a hocchiku, it eventually evolved into a Shirabe piece.

The piece is called Mu-Shirabe because it contains no melody or theme. It is strictly for training the breath and fingering techniques.

A 2.45 shaku hocchiku was used for this piece.