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       Re: Yin Feng - Shakuhachi
       January 19th, 2018
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       I'm absolutely astounded that I found another shakuhachi player on
       gopher. Seriously, I'm in awe.
       
       I'll have to pull your gopher hole up on a different device to try
       and decypher your notation system. It didn't come through clearly
       in lynx. I just did a little search and it looks like some of the
       characters used for notation (the Katakana characters) are
       available in UTF-8. Let me give this a try:
       
            Notes:
       
            ロ    - Ro
            ツ    - Tsu
            レ    - Re
            チ    - Chi
            リ    - Ri
            ヒ    - Hi
            ウ    - U
            イ    - I
            ル    - Ru
            コロ  - Ko Ro
            ゴロ  - Go Ro
            ヵラ  - Ka Ra
       
            Decorations:
       
            メ    - Meri
            ー    - Breath mark
            ヽ    - Repeated note
            ゠    - Song ends
       
       I'm not sure how to make reference the vertical speed changes yet,
       but we can figure things out as we go.
       
       And with that, using a vertical 66 column wide R->L format, and
       trying to take into account the japanese double-wide characters,
       here's a really simple children's song (I really hope this works): 
       
       ------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Hinomaru
       ------------------------------------------------------------------
       
                              リ.             ツ.
                             .ヽ             .ヽ
                              チ.             レ.
                             .ツ             .ヽ
                              レ.             チ.
                              ー             .ヽ
                              リ.             レ.
                             .ヽ              ー
                              チ.             チ.
                             .ツ             .ヽ
                              レ.             リ.
                             .チ             .ヽ
                              ツ.             ロ.
                              ゠             .ヽ
                                              リ.
                                              ー
                                              ロ.
                                             .ヽ
       
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       Whew! That was a bit of work for even a simple song, but I really
       like the final look of it. Please, please, please work on gopher!
       If it does, I may transcribe a bunch of my music, including fun
       little tunes I improvise.
       
 (DIR) More Shakuhachi stuff here
       
       Yin Feng, you made my whole week!