. Japanese flute contents of my Wed are not offical. It is a personal wed. Please look at them for your reference. How to Handle If you play "Yoko-Bue" for a long time, moisture will build up inside of it. To properly clean it you will need to make a "Tsuyu-Toushi" before learn to play. For this you will need: * Stuffs of "Tsuyu-Toushi" Fa weight ball is smaller than "Uta-Kuchi", a piece of dry cloth and string (is longer than "Yoko-Bue"). * How to make and use "Tsuyu-Toushi" FTie the string to the weight and to the corner of the cloth. Drop the small weight through "Uta-Kuchi" and pull it out from "Kan-Bi" . * Notes FTake care of "Yoko-Bue" on the inside with "Tsuyu-Toushi" , and wipe its outside with dry clean cloth after you have finished playing it.

Now then, let's hold "Yoko-Bue". And of course, you should sit up nice and straight before starting to play it ! How to hold the left hand Put the first joint of each finger (forefinger, middle finger, ring finger) over the holes starting at "Uta-Kuchi". (these holes are called numbers "7, 6, and 5"). And put thumb under near "Uta-Kuchi". How to hold the right hand Each of the finger's (forefinger, middle finger, ring finger) at the second joint are put over the holes (three holes "4, 3, 2" from"Kan-Bi"). The little finger is put over the last or #1 hole. Additional notes: 1) You may relax your shoulder and streach your back before your hand hold it. 2) If you are right-handed, you hold "Yoko-Bue" at your right side. (If You are left-handed, you hold it at your left side.) Take a deep breath, expand your chest a bit and breathe out from your abdomen. 3) Now hold the flute horizontal with the fingers in the positions noted above.