Had a very nice day at  Royal Thai Embassy , Tokyo.  A Thai Cuisine Party was held there by Ms. Sakai, supported by the wife of Thai ambassasor to Japan. Will write about Ms. Sakai some other time because it's a long story.

A Thai traditional music band performed before us. So I asked one of them to show how to tune their instruments, especially Soh (two-string fiddle) and Kimm (percussive instrument with two flexible sticks, which regarded as prototype (or ancestor) of piano. My Kimm had a irregular pitch, but today I've got to know it is absolutely OK:  Lowest sound of the left side of strings is B.  Middle area begins with A and goes up to higher B. But this B is a bit off pitch. A band member told me OK.

Yoko, a classmate of my high school days, brought me an MD, in which she recorded some songs of Ms. Takashita, a chansonierre. Her voice is marvelous. Takeshita sang Misora-Hibari's "Midare-Gami". It was completely in modern Jazz style. She also sang Alla Pugacheva's "Million Roses" in quite different version from Alla's and Kato-Tokiko's. I think these things showed me something: something about what originality is.

 My Vocal Saga : Learning pop music vocal lesson using chest voice. But when joining Green Tea, an A Capella group, I should use my head voice (falcetto voice). Moreover I should manage to make my voicing tone most suitable to its harmony, carefully listening to the voicing from voices of the rest. Yes, I am doing 2 different things at the same time: Singing in a chest voice, and in a falcetto for chorus. Perhaps, should improve and adapt my body to this.