 Rob's twangy koto concert The piece we played first is not a duet: Rokudan no shirabe is a traditional solo piece, but I suppose Mrs T was there as a sort of support; we played in unison. The curious thing as you listen to this sound sample of the concert is that I'm playing most of the right notes in the right sort of places. Koto music really is like this. A little ironically, for two weeks before the concert I'd had very nasty conjunctivitis, which made my eyes very narrow and made me positively yellow in the face. How many of the audience realised I was a crazy gaijin and not a crazy Japanese male (koto playing is definitely a young ladies' thing in Japan) I never did find out. No wonder Mrs Takase looks so amused by the whole thing...
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