{"id":49831,"date":"2016-09-26T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=49831"},"modified":"2016-09-26T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:44:44","slug":"ralph-samuelson-the-universal-flute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/09\/26\/ralph-samuelson-the-universal-flute\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Samuelson: The Universal Flute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-49832\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R-Samuelson-UniversalFlute.jpg?fit=300%2C288\" alt=\"R-Samuelson-UniversalFlute\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/>Ralph Samuelson\u2019s \u201cThe Universal Flute\u201d is a compilation of non-flute songs played by people who are not Ralph Samuelson. From the very start, this album requires some context.<br \/>\nFirst, Ralph Samuelson, as the CD insert says, is a former flautist who, a few decades ago on a trip to Japan, converted to using the shakuhachi, a sort of flute made of bamboo, although it might be closer to a recorder in terms of its design and how it\u2019s played. The insert continues to say that Ralph Samuelson suffered an injury that damaged the nerves in his hands in the 1990s, which prevented him from playing the shakuhachi, although he still teaches the instrument. Therefore, this CD has Samuelson in more of the curator role, recording the tracks of other talented players.<br \/>\nThe subtitle for this album is \u201cDiscovery in a Single Tone,\u201d and this subtitle is largely accurate, because much of the music on this album is a single instrument playing a single note. Make no mistake: this isn\u2019t party music. If anything, this is music you might find in the background of a documentary set in Japan. That said, much of the music is very relaxing, and if you haven\u2019t heard much of this instrument, you might want to give it a try.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: no comparison<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: Afterimage, Three Songs of Shide<br \/>\nDo Not Play: none<br \/>\nWritten by Alex McWhirt on 09\/22\/2016 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mostly Western take on a Far Eastern instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":49832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[5506,1681,5503,5505,5504],"class_list":["post-49831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-rotation","tag-classical","tag-japan","tag-ralph-samuelson","tag-shakuhachi","tag-the-universal-flute"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R-Samuelson-UniversalFlute.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}