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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
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	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.

	More Shakuhachi stuff here

	Yin Feng, you made my whole week!