| Name | call me Yoshi |
| Language | Japanese, English (have spent 4 years in London and San Diego) |
| Age | ? |
| Major Interest | Recorder, Classical Music (mainly Baroque) Arranging classical music for recorder groups Gardening Tropical fish such as discus Fermenting Yogurt |
| My biography about the recorder | have played for >25 years still at the intermediate level practice once a week or less (no wonder there is little progress) plays mainly Alto and other F-recorders love Bach and other baroque music sometimes play contemporary music just for fun (such as Serenata by Bonsor) love slow movements more than fast and loud ones |
| Recorders I own | |
| Soprano | Moeck ebony Takeyama maple Yamaha plastic |
| Alto | Takeyama/Hirao boxwood a=440 Yamaha transparent plastic Zenon/Collins plastic Mollenhauer (Breukink) dream alto fitted with modern alto's E-foot Saito Denner a=415 Breuking Dream a=415 Hirao Bressan in G a=415 Saito Stanesby Sr. a=406, 415, 392 |
| Voiceflute | Whinray Stanesby Sr. a=415 |
| Bass | Kung knick cherrywood, very rich low tone |
| Other musical instruments I have |
an odd panflute-like wind instrument traverso (bought at an auction; can hardly play it properly) a strange ocarina-like wind instrument made of pottery have intractable habbit of buying unplayable instruments |
| share the house with | a classical pianist (unchanged for a long time). |
| music room | where musical friends gather have home concert twice a year |
| arrange music for recorders using | a Sharp notebook computer a music authoring program Finale 2003 a Canon bubblejet printer Adobe Acrobat to generate pdf files |