"empty bowl" genre: World Fusion
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	Yes, that is a Native American flute, although played in the style of a shakuhachi. Add in singing bowls and a good beat, and there you have it.
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	Story Behind the Song Along with Native flute, one of my favorite woodwinds is the shakuhachi, a Japanese end-blown flute closely associated with Zen meditation -- playing shakuhachi is sometimes called "blowing Zen." Unfortunately, they are extremely difficult to play -- some sources say it can take six months or more just to play a decent, consistent sound -- before you even start fingering notes! I'm not that patient, so I've been messing around with making the NAF sound like a shakuhachi. The main theme of this piece is a variation on one of these ancient Zen melodies, or 'honkyoku', called "Honshirabe." This piece is a traditional warm-up or prelude. To that I added one of my other favorite sounds: Himalayan singing bells. I adore bells, and the more resonant, the better. The sonorous, ringing tones, echoing into silence, send chill fire up and down my spine. All it was missing, in my eyes, was a good beat.

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