re: #64 Barefoot Grin

We were on a service-learning trip in August helping with a couple of summer English language schools. One was on a tiny island with 1200 people. They had a BBQ for us and a local who was regionally famous for playing the Okinawan string instrument that makes the sound that Ry is doing here—the sanshin—performed for us. I got to try my hand at it. It’s hard because the strings are very loose and you have to hit them with precision both in fingering and with the plectrum.

Ry has an advantage. I don’t know what it is, but he can play strings.