Japanese Hichiriki (篳篥)(HCHRK-05)

Completed Summer 2008.  $550.  Spoken for.
 

Hichiriki

Hichiriki

moto no hichirikihichiriki and shita

zuguchi no hichiriki

 

HAND CRAFTED, GAGAKU DOUBLE-REED MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

This hichiriki is crafted from bamboo imported from China.  The body of this instrument was carefully shaped, wrapped in cherry wood and bound with traditional rattan (kaba) imported directly from Japan.  The bore and rattan is finished with tinted lacquer.  The hichiriki's shita (reed) has also been imported from Japan after its creation.  The hichiriki has been tuned, after careful bore treatments in follow of the traditional methods of tuning these instruments, similar to the "spot-tuning" done with the best-made shakuhachi.