Frank Denyer ... Stalks

(1986) for shakuhachi, bass recorder and viola (Yoshikazu Iwamoto, shakuhachi / Alex Robertson, viola / Bill Lyons, bass recorder) The shakuhachi (尺八 [ɕakɯhatɕi]) is a Chinese and Japanese end-blown flute. - shaku (尺) is an archaic unit of length equal to 30.3 centimeters ( English foot) and subdivided in ten subunits. - hachi (八) means “eight“, here eight sun, or tenths of a shaku.