Kari

Kari

Kari or KARI may refer to:* Kari or curry, a pan-Asian variety of spicy food* Kari or Sundaram Karivardhan, a legendary figure of Indian motorsports*Kari , a natural satellite of Saturn*Kari , a technique in shakuhachi music...

, in shakuhachi

Shakuhachi

The is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...

 music, is both a property of a note and a technique. To play a note kari means to play it with raised pitch

Pitch (music)

Pitch is an auditory perceptual property that allows the ordering of sounds on a frequency-related scale.Pitches are compared as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies,...

, relative to playing the note meri

Meri

Meri may refer to:*Meri , folk hero in Bororo mythology*Meri, term in shakuhachi music*The Meri, novel by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff*Meri, release title of La Mer in Finland...

. In addition to sharpening the pitch, playing a note kari also modifies the tone color or timbre

Timbre

In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices and musical instruments, such as string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that determine the...

 of a note.

The usual technique to play a note kari is to raise the chin, increasing the angle and distance between the embouchure

Embouchure

The embouchure is the use of facial muscles and the shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece of woodwind instruments or the mouthpiece of the brass instruments.The word is of French origin and is related to the root bouche , 'mouth'....

 and utaguchi (blowing edge).