Yung Flutes

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Today’s available Shakuhachi Inventory. Flat rate of $19 is added to all for USPS priority Mail of Domestic shipping.

New TENSEI Line 1.8 wooden and 2.2 bass flutes just added here!

All repairs and estimates here.

Read my review of Araki Kodō VI’s new CD – Hankyō https://yungflutes.wordpress.com/a-conversation-with-my-fathers/

Hi, I’m Perry Yung. I am a shakuhachi craftsman, musician and actor. I first discovered the shakuhachi flute while performing in New York City as an actor in Ellen Stewart’s experimental theater production Oedipus the King. I started making the shakuhachi under the tutelage of the orchestra pit musician Yukio Tsuji as it was impossible to buy an instrument in the pre-internet days of 1994. Eight years later received a Japan United States Friendship Commission Artist grant to live in Japan to study with Kinya Sogawa. The shakuhachi has become an integral part of my life as I continue crafting and performing for theater, Hollywood soundtracks and community events. The flute has helped to raise money for non profit organizations such as UNICEF, food Banks and Water is Life Gaza today. Today, I enjoy playing with Ralph Samuelson in New York City playing the in Hudson Valley ShakuhachI Choir.

For repairs, I work from different locations so email me at yungflutes at gmail dot com for the shipping address.

Shakuhachi Grants: Asian Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Shakuhachi research for historical instruments and music 2014. Lower Manhattan Community Council grant. Theatrical work with shakuhachi 2005. Japan United States Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship for shakuhachi making, 2002.

Shakuhachi Photos from the workbench – Jinashi, Jiari and Honshu red urushi lacquer.:

Performance works: Breath, World International Shakuhachi Festival, London July 2018. Family Playdate, La Mama Theater series. 2008 – present. Jet Stream, Mulberry St Theater. 2005 SLANT Performance Group, eight original theatrical productions involving shakuhachi. La Mama Theater. Joseph Papp Public Theater, domestic and international tours 1995 – present.

Recent Performance Gallery:

National Day of Solidarity Washington DC Keynote 2021

Theater: Great Jones Repertory Group 1993 – present. SLANT Performance group 1995 – present. Ping Chong 1998 and 2008. Fred Ho and the Afro-Asian American art Ensemble 1991 – 2013. Pan Asian Repertory Theater 1992 – 2000. Mabou Mines NYC 2021.

Touring: PANORAMA, Motus and Great Jones, Rome, Partenza and Bari – Nov 2018. Pan Asian Repertory Theater. Cairo Egypt Johannesburg, South Africa. 1993 – 1997 SLANT Performance Group 1995 – 2008. Domestic and international. Trojan Women/Fragments of a Greek Trilogy. 1997 – 2002. Domestic and international – Italy, Greece, Croatia, Macedonia, Austria, Former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Taiwan, Japan and Korea to name a few.