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how about raffling off something, when I was at high school we had a lot of raffles. A few other suggestions * arrange a short show and ask for a small admittance fee and donations. * ask for community involvement (but don't badger the community) i've seen a few signs like help send our choir to Syd...

I got the best news on Thursday I got offered a job so now it looks like I won't have to sell my piccolos for the moment. Its amazing how things can change in 24 hours I got first a phone call asking if it was all right to contact a reference for a job then a few hours later bam I got offered a job....

I have to agree I love both my sankyo instruments having two of them makes me doubly happy

When I tired the sankyo 601 in japan i thought that instrument was well above my skills to play but even at that level it was effortless playing shame I couldn't afford to buy it

neonG

Sankyo's are great instruments I hope one day to own a model with the kingma system I saw one played in japan in 2008 and it was amazing to listen to

hi, firstly with grade exams it depends a lot on which board is the examining body. I have done trinity college exams i've done 1 through to 5. If you are doing Trinity exams you will need to do the pieces as written if it says forte play forte if it says mp play mezzo piano. The examiners are stick...

sankyo in japan is still known as prima sankyo, the prima just refers to the group that sankyo belongs to if you look at prima gakki online the website it has all the other brands of musical instruments that are incorporated under the name of prima. Some of the other prima brands are the following: ...

The link for Prima I provided is definitely a better website I was sent the link by a Japanese sales person from sankyo when I was shopping for my new flute. I have a sankyo brochure I was given in Tokyo at a flute fair has more information about head joints and flutes in it however it is in Japanes...

The ST-3 does perform better at the top except it is not only very bright it can also be very loud so you need to be prepared to learn how to control the sound a bit more than that of the ST-2 you might like to have a look at this link you will need to translate it though using something like google...

What I would like to know is how to sell an instrument, a few months back I was finally able to sell my Armstrong 104 flute it took nearly a year to sell it I ended up having to sell it for half the value it was worth. When I dropped the price i had so many inquiries it was crazy. I am thinking abou...

The cut on the Sankyo does make a difference, I own two sankyo flutes both models made for the japanese market and they both have different cut headjoints. I didn't get the choice of which headjoint I got on either of my sankyo's but I can tell you there is a difference in the cuts. I have an ST-2 a...

I have tried two of the sankyo piccolos last time I was in japan the 301 and the 401, I am saving up to buy the P401.

In japan there are three models available the 201, 301 and the 401

They do sound different to the wood models as you would expect.

Hope this helps

neonG

First of all greetings, in regard to the link fluteland.co.cc I would be very cautious they claim to be Japanese I know a lot of the Japanese retailers as I bought my last two sankyo flutes and piccolo over there I have never heard of them. The other thing about that site I would caution is that for...

hi, I recently bought a new flute and a piccolo in Japan. There are quite a few places you can go to try head joints out and if you take your flute with you they should be able to get it adjusted on the same day. dolce musical instruments in Osaka had Powell headjoints when i was there in August, th...

I have two inline sankyo's that both have a NEL (similar to a doughnut). I have played a sankyo without a NEL or NEWE and there was no trouble reaching E3 so i imagine there shouldn't be too much problem with the muramatsu I have to agree with sidekicker on the inline flute issue: I've played an inl...

Hi, I had all four wisdom teeth taken out plus two others. The only problem I have encountered is that you can get tenderness in the jaw occasionally. At first it was hard to deal with but now it doesn't worry me at all. There is no adverse affects at all really. My surgeon screwed up my jaw and I c...