Bell ringing in the empty sky

So i've got a lot of emails to catch up on. I'm getting there slowly.
Apologies if yours is amongst them!  :)

I've been a little taken the past week with the Shakuhachi.
I'm pretty awful with it so far but am pretty impressed with how quickly it has become much more than 'my latest toy'. 
It's the sound of Buddha :)  
[ok so is crazy frog but crazy frog has quite a different effect on me!]

I came across this wonderful activity through the playing of Nyogetsu Reishin (or Ronnie if you prefer). Ronnie was the first non-Japanese to be recognised as a GrandMaster. Hopefully i can travel to study with him some time in the next year.

Here's Ronnie playing Koku (Bell ringing in the empty sky).
It is said to have been composed after the death of the Zen monk Fuke-Zenji, patriarch of the shakuhachi, who in life is supposed to have walked around ringing a small hand-bell. In the legend the monk predicts the day of his own death. When the villagers hear of his death, they open his coffin and find it empty. However, they look to the sky and clearly hear the sound of a bell getting fainter, as if ascending to the clear, blue sky.
Erm, ok...   Anyway enjoy...