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Shakuhachi Flute - Instructional Playing Guides

Masayuki Koga, Shakuhachi: Japanese Bamboo Flute
Masayuki Koga, Extract of Master Techniques for Shakuhachi
Yoshinobu Taniguchi, How to Play the Shakuhachi: A Guide to the Japanese Bamboo Flute
Takashi Tokuyama & Barry Nyosui Weiss,Také-no-Michi - The Path of Bamboo:
A Beginner's Learining Guide to Shakuhachi Honkyoku
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, The Shakuhachi: A Manual for Learning
Yoshinobu Taniguchi & Michael Gould, How to Play Classical Shakuhachi - Book 1
John Kaizan Neptune, Shakuhachi: A Tozan Playing Guide
Carl Abbott, Blowing Zen: One Breath, One Mind
Robert Grous, Introductory Manual for Kinko Honkyoku
James Nyoraku Schlefer, Shakuhachi Workbook: Daily Practice Exercises for Technical Development
Hozan Yamamoto, Shakuhachi Playing Guide: 5-Line Notation

Shakuhachi Flute - Teaching Videos

Bruce Huebner with Jonathan Katz, Jazz Shakuhachi (DVD )

Bruce Huebner, Kinko Shakuhachi (Vol. 1)
Bruce Huebner with Rikako Takemure, Kinko Shakuhachi and Jiuta Ensemble (Vol. 2)
Bruce Huebner with Gunnar Jinmei Linder, How to Play Kinko Shakuhachi Honkyoku (Vol. 3)
(DVD or VHS)

Shakuhachi Flute - Books

Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, THE SINGLE TONE: A Personal Journey Into Shakuhachi Music
Ronnie Nyogetsu Seishin Seldin & Barbara Lee Krooss, SUI ZEN: Blowing Meditation on the Shakuhachi (with 5 CDs)
Torsten Olafsson, KAIDÔ HONSOKU (1628)THE KOMOSÔ'S FUKE SHAKUHACHI CREDO: On Early 17th Century Ascetic Shakuhachi Ideology (with CD)
Tanimura Ko, Kitahara Kozo, Kitahara Ikuya, Matsumoto Misao & Matsuda Akira, The Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments - the Shakuhachi
Andreas B. Gutzwiller, Shakuhachi: Aspects of History, Practice & Teaching
Kondo Jo & Joaquim Benitez, eds., Contemporary Music Review: Flute and Shakuhachi
Riley K. Lee, Yearning for the Bell: A Study of Transmission in the Shakuhachi Honkyoku Tradition
Tone Takahashi, TOZAN RYU: An Innovation of the Shakuhachi Tradition from Fuke-shu to Secularism
Ray Brooks, Blowing Zen: Finding an Authentic Life

Koto

Kayoko Wakita, Koto Manual: Ikuta Style

Native American Flute

R. Carlos Nakai & James DeMars, THE ART OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE
Tim R. Crawford with Dr. Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl, FLUTE MAGIC: An Introduction to the Native American Flute

John Vames, THE NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE: Understanding the Gift
John Vames, SONG FOR KOKO: Jazz for the Native American Flute

South American Flutes - Kena & Panpipes (Siku)

Andrew Taher, KENA: Ancient Flute of the Andes
Andrew Taher, SIKU: Ancient Flute of the Andes
Sukay, HOW TO PLAY FLUTES OF THE ANDES

North Indian Bansuri Flute

Lyon Leifer, HOW TO PLAY THE BANSURI: A Manual for Self-Instruction based on the Teaching of Devendra Murdeshwar

Jeff Whittier, PLAYING THE BANSURI: A Manual for the North Indian Flute (Video & Manual)

Chinese Bamboo Flute - Dizi

Tim Liu, HOW TO PLAY THE DIZI: A Complete Instructiional Course for the Chinese Bamboo Flute

Silver Flute & Bamboo Side-Blown Flute

Mark Shepard, HOW TO LOVE YOUR FLUTE: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing

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