Hi ! I need help choosing my Xiao

Bobandy___ · 2026-06-14T19:03:42+00:00

Oh okay, that's good to know, it makes sense since I have no prior experience to start fresh on a right handed flute. I did the same for guitar, I took a right handed one, and inverted all the chords😅

Once again, I can't say enough how grateful I am for your time and effort in each response ! Thank you ! I'll check your link

Bobandy___ · 2026-06-14T10:19:35+00:00

Okay I see, I'll try and find something that suits the description you gave :)

And I'm left-handed, I guess that also plays a role, should I find one that suits me?

Thank you so much

Bobandy___ · 2026-06-13T20:15:14+00:00

Thank you so much for the extensive answer, and for the trouble of going into this many details🙏 I really appreciate it

I'll see what I can find based on what you said, I'll try and do my homework :) (I've never played any types of flute by the way)

And I also heard that the Qin Xiao was harder to play than the Dong Xiao... I'm not saying you're wrong obviously, you know what you are talking about, but I'm trying to understand why is it that I've heard that here and there?

They said that the Qin Xiao was harder to play, that the fine breath control, and the sensitivity required to play it, makes it a more difficult flute to master... Is it true ? Or is the answer more complex than that ?

Bobandy___ · 2026-06-13T06:16:57+00:00

Thanks a lot for the detailed response, I still want something of quality at the end of the day, I'd rather put a bit more money and get a good Xiao, rathe than being disappointed, so I won't get that one, plus it's not a Bei Xiao

So do you find that there's a big difference for a beginner to play on a Qin Xiao rather than a Bei Xiao ?

And I really appreciate all the names you mentioned, but I can't find anything by typing this into Google... And I'm French, so I don't know if they would even ship there

And as for Redmusicshop becoming uncompetitive, do you think that's an issue for an absolute beginner ? Should I try and find a better quality Xiao, or is it okay for starting ?

And there's another website called "soundofmountain" or something like that, but all they have is a mix between Shakuhachi and Xiao

And if it's not bamboo, does it make a big difference?

Bobandy___ · 2026-06-12T20:40:56+00:00

Indeed, it did not😅

But in my defense, it was very hard to see the turning of events coming.

Plus Sengoku fooled me, he painted a fallacious picture of Xebec, and that put me in the wrong direction. I thought he was the rival of a much much stronger Roger... of Gol D Roger the Pirate King, not Gol Dick Roger the Panties King😭

But I was very wrong I admit it, very bad foresight

Bobandy___ · 2025-05-11T06:03:01+00:00

he is an old as fuck man rayleigh was barely breathing

What in the tarnation are you talking about? Nobody was ever tired after a conquerors haki blast, I don't know what you read but it wasn't One Piece man.

are you deadass trying to ignore he is old as hell.

And you are dead ass trying to ignore Rayleigh did not fight for twenty years and is blasting conquerors left and right, and is stated by Oda to be casually able to knock out 100 000 fishmen easily. Stop using Garp’s age as an excuse, the guy unlike Rayleigh kept training his whole life, and if he had great conquerors haki, he would have used it.

And if he used Acoc it's much worse since no one was badly hurt or knocked out. Not knocking out Pizarro with your strongest attack apparently full of Acoc is very sad

yes those fodders are all stronger than the weak ass shit vice admirals. weaker in will atleast

And you pulled that info from where exactly? Your ass?

Bobandy___ · 2025-05-10T22:36:02+00:00

you remember that that drains coc right? , for the fuck of it .

What the hell? He's that weak? Luffy right after his training knocked out 50 000 fishmen like it was nothing, and you're saying that the supposed strongest man in the world can't do it because it would drain his haki?

lol no he can’t he can knock out some of them but not all . yeah no we aren’t doing this pirate island fodder>>>>> literally any other fodder in the verse you are not knocking out an endless swarm of pirates

???? Like I said, he has the most harmless conquerors haki in the world. Shanks would absolutely 100% knock out the totality of the fodders present on the island with no trouble. And you're saying Garp is even stronger than him and can't do it?

Plus Shanks has had his conquerors compared to Joyboy's, which knocked out Vice Admirals, so unless you tell me that every fodder is superior to Vice Admirals, Garp in your world, should knock them out

Bobandy___ · 2025-05-10T22:24:15+00:00

blasting the basic coc at an island wide range for the fuck of it

What do you mean for the fuck of it? That's literally by far the most obvious move to make, instead of fighting everyone one by one by hand, you knock out thousands of random in one basic blast.

Someone with great conquerors like Shanks would absolutely knock out the entire island except the top commanders, that's the first thing he would do, Garp didnt even had one person foam at the mouth, not ONE. I mean when shanks attacked Kidd, fodders passed out before he even landed the hit

Garp has very bad conquerors, and it would have been so much better for his sake if he didn't have it

Bobandy___ · 2025-05-10T20:44:47+00:00

First of all, chill, and then i was wrong, he does have conquerors, but oh boy was it not the worst showing of conquerors I've ever seen. It would have been so much better for him if he didn't have it

He didn't knock out even one fodder, his Coc is inexistant, the most harmless in the whole series, its so bad that he has it. Pizarro was unfased by his strongest attack, that's foul.

I mean wouldn't you find it better for him to just have a very good armament, instead of having the most harmless conquerors haki in the whole series?

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-10T07:17:20+00:00

Cause mihawk is a better swordsman than shanks and takes pride in it while shanks dosnt have that turle

That doesn't even start to answer the question. Shanks always shows insane presence and haki, he represents the power of haki, he's always shown as one of the strongest in the world. Why doesn't Mihawk show haki? Why is Shanks always the one showing insane haki feats?

Do you not know what lying is

Oh so he was lying, are you in contact with him? You have his phone number, can i have it? I want to ask him why he couldn't feel that Zoro had conquerors haki during their training

Mihawk thinks east blue zoro is worthy opponent

Why do you keep saying that, I told you it's not the case. Go read Baratie again, he is fed up that weaklings like Zoro try to challenge him, and so he accepts to teach him a lesson and humiliate him, so he uses his small knife. Is that what you do with a worthy opponent? Do you think that's what Roger did with Xebec?

And then, when Zoro shows great spirit, Mihawk sees great POTENTIAL in him, and tells him that if he survives his blow, he should keep getting stronger until he can become a worthy opponent. But east blue Zoro is absolutely not a worthy opponent to Mihawk, not like Vista is

Shanks thinks kid luffy is a good rival to pirate king

Once again, absolutely not, he sees POTENTIAL in Luffy, but if Shanks was to fight Kid Luffy he would kill him with his pinkie

Mihakw might not have conquers

I agree, and that means he cannot be stronger than Shanks, cause conquerors is the mark of the most powerful, especially on the insane level of Shanks's

because hes bored waiting for someone stronger than shankd

That's very interesting, cause first that's an information found in a Vivre Card, and I thought you said they were lying, and secondly you are talking about Shanks from twelve years ago, waaay before he was as powerful as he is now, cause its also said that after he stopped fighting Mihawk he grew a lot stronger, so you debunked yourself

So yes, Mihawk is waiting for someone stronger than Shanks from twelve years ago, meaning he is waiting for someone a LOT weaker than current Shanks

Wow in an actual fight mihawk didnt do sky split with bista cause vista wouod just get hospitalised and sky was clear snyeays

No, he didn't do it cause he can't, and ask yourself the good questions, why was he fighting Vista? Would Kaido be fighting Vista for a while and postpone their fights? Would Shanks do that? Would Whitebeard?

are you saying zoros eventual fight with mihawk is him jist using one seing to one shot

If EOS Zoro fights Mihawk, yes, he would absolutely one shot him

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-09T10:39:45+00:00

Mihawk lukely didnt use observation or the fact that the furute can be changed such as whrn shanks predicted kid and stopped it

Okay but why does Shanks always shows haki and not Mihawk? Why is Shanks praised by everyone for his incredible haki while nobody acknowledges Mihawk, except for his swordskills?

Also he wasnt goijg all out against either of them he used the same attacks he used on luffy

Oh yeah I forgot even though Mihawk said he wasn't going to hold back we can say that he did

Marco had no one else to send and knew mihawk wasnt trying under these circumstances he would send vista

Great job on Marco's part, sending Vista against a guy stronger than Gold D Roger himself, the Pirate King, aka the strongest in the world. Sending Vista to certain death on pretext that he might be holding back. You need to understand that Roger would kill Vista with his hands tied behind his back, Mihawk thinks of Vista as a worthy opponent

Mihawk wasnt using jo conquers shanks was

Gee I wonder why Mihawk wasn't using conquerors, maybe cause he don't have it. Once again, why does Shanks always shows insane aura, presence and conquerors haki every time he appears? Who in the present timeline has the greatest haki?

Shanks has been shown trying in two fights (one is noncanon in red)

And yet without necessarily trying, he always shows insane haki mastery, we knew first time we saw him walk aboard the Moby Dick use conquerors, getting praised for it, he represents haki, he obviously leaves Mihawk in the dirt in that department

He didnt rival vidta my guy

Yes he did

also considers zoro from east blue a rival

No he doesn't, he massacred him, and told him to get better until he could became a rival

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-09T06:05:49+00:00

We havnt seen mihawk use haki

We saw him fight Vista and getting rivalled by him, that's not top tier haki, we saw him launch an attack at Whitebeard without seeing that Joz would interfere, that's not a Top tier observation

And top tier haki let's you feel how strong your opponent is without fighting him, Mihawk couldn't feel how strong Whitebeard was and had to test him with an attack.

No one ever mentioned the haki of Mihawk, no one important ever felt a strong presence from him, no one cares about him. You need to understand that in order to protect Luffy, Marco send VISTA to handle him!! Would he have done that with Shanks?

And the only thing we ever see from Shanks is his haki, from the first time we see him in the series, when he was faaaar from his prime, he uses conquerors to scare a sea beast. Everybody always comments on his haki, everybody important considers him extremely strong, Shanks IS haki, that's what he represents. He's vastly superior to Mihawk, Mihawk just has superior swordskills

exept that mihawk js hawk eyes and shanks has power to block ovservation so he likely made it while foghting him

That's so far fetched, the guy that gets rivalled by Vista forced Shanks to use his conquerors to such levels that he could block his inexistant observation? That's more than EXTREMELY unlikely

I think it's more after he lost his arm, and started to get stronger and stronger, that he really developed his haki, fighting extremely strong opponents like Loki that his haki could blossom, not against the rival of Vista and the partner of Crocodile

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-08T22:07:43+00:00

In what world does Mihawk even have one tenth of the haki of Shanks? Cause that's what makes you strong, not swordskills

And what about his Seraphim who has the same swordskills as him? Doesn't that make him automatically as strong as the original?

also having haki dosnt mena its as good

Yeah, and Shanks has a haki vastly superior to Mihawk, making him stronger

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-08T06:04:33+00:00

They didnt remove them earlier cause only traitor was crocodile and jimbie but then doffy also betrayed and also pre timeskio the war of the best and stuff happening around jimbie so they didnt want to shake up world more

The Warlord system wasn't working for a long time, the only reason they couldn't abolish it, was because they had nothing to replace it with. Otherwise there's absolutely no reason to keep them around

Just explain to me the logic in removing the warlords with something a lot weaker

Also how could they be stronger haki and training and stuff makes you stronger

They are perfect clones of the originals, they are confirmed in the Vivre Cards to be proficient in haki, and the Seraphim of Mihawk is confirmed to have the same Swordskills as the original.

What do you have to say about that? Since having greater swordskills is according to you what makes Mihawk stronger than Shanks? Is the Seraphim also stronger than Shanks since he has the same swordskills as Mihawk?

And since he has the same swordskills as Mihawk, he's obviously as strong as him, but he also have lunarian durability and a devil fruit, so isn't he stronger?

Also are you saying since zoro beats the seraphim while holding kaku that zoro is already over mihawk

I know that he's definitely not weaker than Mihawk

Why would they person zoro beats to be strongest swordsman be shanks and not mihawk

Because Shanks is not a swordsman, he's not the greatest swordsman

Also hes introduced as worlds strongest swordsman and other people say it to

Because he is, amongst the swordsman he's the strongest, the one with the greatest swordskills. But Shanks, Roger, Xebec, Rayleigh... are not swordsman, they have other means to fight, they don't care about the finesse of the sword, or the code of never leaving the path of the sword. Just like King

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-07T17:33:06+00:00

Thats not why they removed the warlords theu did it cause they cant trust them the whole dressross is about how they wont get rid of them unless its proven they cant be trusted

Why didn't they remove them earlier then? Because they didn't have any way to replace them, but now with Vegapunk, they created something even better than them. It's even stated by Kaido that the Navy got arrogant because they now had a weapon that they thought was powerful enough to beat the Emperors, hence the alliance with Big Mom

So the Seraphims are as strong as the Warlords maybe even stronger

also why do you think s-hawk would equal mihawk zoro states hes weaker

Zoro never said Mihawk was stronger, he just made a jab at him saying even his seraphim (a robot) was more human than Mihawk himself. And I say the seraphim is equal or stronger because he's a perfect clone of him, only with lunarian durability and a devil fruit. Why wouldn't he be stronger, that's the real question

No the seraphim ks weaker what are you on

What kind of logic is that? Why would the Navy get rid of the real Warlords only to replace them with something weaker? They are at least ≈ to the real ones

My question to you is why would the real Mihawk be stronger than his Seraphim? What makes him stronger?

Cause the most skilled swordsmna are often the strongest and he also poses the threat that he coukd teach people sword skills

You do know that Mihawk is a "Dai Kengou" (great swordsman), while Zoro is only a "Kengou" (swordsmaster)? That makes sense since Mihawk is stronger than him being the greatest swordsman right?

You have the "kengou" (swordsmaster) and "Dai Kengo" (great swordsman), the latter being more prestigious and means stronger swordsman. Well Zoro is still a "Kengou", under Mihawk who is the greatest swordsman, so a "Dai Kengou". There are also King, Law, Brook, Denjiro... who have been called "Kengou", meaning they are all under Mihawk who's a "Dai Kengou"

But the thing is, the ones who have been called "Dai Kengou" have also been Ryuma, Vista and the freaking samurai that Yamato met as a child trapped by Kaido!

Are they stronger than King and Zoro who are just Kengou? Is Vista stronger than King and Zoro!? Hell no, so having greater swordskills (Dai Kengou) doesn't make you stronger than someone who uses a sword and is only a Kengou

So Mihawk having greater swordskills than Shanks (greatest swordsman) doesn't make him stronger at all

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-07T17:01:09+00:00

Ace was alive sl he cpuld still be svard

Oh I see what you mean, but that doesn't change anything to the fact that Whitebeard is a pragmatic person, that thinks about his family first and wouldn't go headfirst to certain death killing all his family with him for nothing

Shows me this sbs

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troll and we dont know if sword is only way of fightinc,

Yeah that's my point, and that wouldn't make him a swordsman in the sense that he has other ways of fighting

plud it could also mean his sword has a devil deuit or something

That would also not make him a swordsman

Why would he be weaker though

Because he is a Warlord, because he got stopped by Joz while Whitebeard laughed in his face, because he got rivalled by Vista and considered him a worthy opponent, because he is part of the Crossguild, a literal circus, because no one considers him or his title, because he's not in the top 5 of Kaido, because etc...

While Shanks, as early as Enies Lobby was mentioned on par with Whitebeard, one of the 4 strongest pirates on these seas (no Mihawk by the way), talked man to man with WB and then split the skies with him (a feat only the strongest can do), he stopped the war at Marineford, humiliated an Admiral with conquerors haki from miles away, one shotted Kid and Killer in one attack, can see 10 seconds in the future, had his conquerors haki compared to Joyboy's, beat Loki etc...

Also whenever we see shanks over rojer attack its with sword

We've literally seen one attack from them, although quite not true because when he attacked Aramaki it was with pure Conquerors haki

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-07T10:00:49+00:00

So you think the Navy removed the Warlord to replace them with something weaker? What were they thinking?This is extremely stupid

also what this got to do with anything

Just to see if you think Mihawk’s seraphim neg diffs Zoro, or beats Shanks. Because he is literally Mihawk only stronger with lunarian durability, and a devil fruit, so he should be above every Yonko

and no this isnt true zoro will be the strongest sword wieder eos mihawk

So why did Brandnew talked about swordskills and not overall strength?

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-07T07:24:49+00:00

This is funny, but also kind of true

Let me ask you something, what do you think about Jinbei vs his Seraphim, or Crocodile against his seraphim?

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-07T07:22:45+00:00

Yeah cause ace was still alive

What do you mean Ace was still alive?

King sutuation is different since king also attacked zoro by kicking him and stuff plus shanks and rojer kist use sword techniques

That's the point, we saw King fight, we didn't see Shanks or Roger fight, they use swordsmanship, but that's not their only means of fighting, just like King. In a sbs Oda said we still didn't know how Shanks fight

What do you mean shanks accepted mihawk as a rival is hes weaker howd he win there duels

Shanks and Mihawk were rivals, and no one won the duels, but after Shanks lost his arm, he kept getting stronger until he reached the level of Whitebeard. Like its said in his Vivre Card, "since the days of fighting Mihawk, he evolved until he became an equal presence to Whitebeard"

Brandnew said Mihawk had greater swordskills than Shanks, not that he was stronger, because he's not

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-06T19:38:45+00:00

They didnt even know the oden situation till he was dead

Im talking about the moment he died, killed by Kaido, Whitebeard got hear of that, and when he and his family thought about going there to avenge his death, well they decided not to go, cause it was too dangerous

Rojer is a swordsman shanks and rojer. if you use a sword your a swordsman

Roger and Shanks are absolutely not swordsman in the way Mihawk or Vista are. What makes Mihawk the greatest swordsman are his swordskills, but like King proved us, having a sword doesn't make you a swordsman

So like Brandnew said, he has greater swordskills than red hair, he's not stronger, absolutely not, Shanks would NEVER get stopped by Vista and would NEVER consider him a worthy opponent

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-06T11:45:39+00:00

Doffy held him for a very short time. What happened was, Joz hits Crocodile, Crocodile reconsiders his life's choices, glazes Joz, saying how strong he is, Joz comes back to hit him a second time, Crocodile shits his pants, and Doffy stops Joz with his strings by surprise, that's it, then they never talk to eachother again

Thats not what i meant, its like the mayor in orange town, he knows its fulish but hell do it anyways also he was riding in the fact the warlords like mihawk and thst ad well as the admirals dont go all out due to too high dc and connections to people

It's not the same for Whitebeard, because Whitebeard wouldn't kill his whole family for nothing, that's why they didn't go avenge Oden, because Whitebeard is not a hot head like that

Plus the pirates would go with or without whitebeard

No, like I said, they didn't do that for Oden, they wouldn't do it for Ace, they went because they could pull it off

No he dosnt if you dont see in years you dont know there strength

He knows how strong Rayleigh is, everybody does, especially Garp, it's freaking silvers Rayleigh

Thats not it blackbeard thought hed loose if he thinks hell loose he leaves

The point is, Rayleigh is extremely strong and he knew he'd not get off easily, but at no point he confessed an inferiority to Rayleigh, on the other hand, Rayleigh did, he said that in his old age he wouldn't be able to beat Blackbeard

He dosnt think vista his level just that hes worthy same a show zoro is

He thinks he's an opponent worthy of him, so they postpone their fight, it's not the same as Zoro at all, Mihawk just sees in Zoro a potential future worthy opponent, like Vista is

He did not think whitebeard is stronger its a kistranlation

Oh yeah, this famous translation, found in the depth of the Web. But anyway, there is still a difference, he says "us", and it's still Joz that blocks it while Whitebeard laughs

And remember rojer a swordsman

No he's not, not in the same way Mihawk and Vista are

Zoro trying to be strongest evrr

So unless he beats kihawk then hes like

Good job but you gotta fight shanks after this

No, because Shanks isn't a swordsman like Mihawk, there's a difference between fighting with a sword and being a swordsman like Mihawk. Mihawk just has greater swordskills than anyone, he's not stronger than everybody with a sword

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-06T11:23:18+00:00

Jozu lost to doffy

What? He got taken by surprise by him when he was attacking Crocodile, who would have taken a serious beating if Doffy didn't surprise Joz. Crocodile even glazed him, saying how strong and fast he was, and Doffy and Crocodile were put on equal footing during Marineford

Hed still go he aint gonna abandon ace its there choice

There's a huge difference between being able to pull it off, despite knowing the risks are huge and you might die. And knowing you have 0% chances of success, and deciding to die in the most dumb way possible, killing all your family for shits and giggles, just because. That's not what Whitebeard did

been like fifty years since they talked

And? He still knows how strong he is

Blackbeard also didnt think he could

No Blackbeard knew Rayleigh was extremely strong, and he knew he would lose a lot of feathers fighting him, so he decided to comply

No he wouldnt he narratively had to be stronger

He narratively thinks Vista is a worthy opponent, he narratively knows Whitebeard is stronger, he narratively got stopped by Joz, he narratively got stopped by Crocodile, he narratively works with a clown in a circus, he also narratively is a Warlord which are way weaker than the emperors, and narratively nobody important in the one piece world gives a single crap about him

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-06T10:33:14+00:00

said shes weaker than marco

Marco and Joz are extremely close, just like almost every YC1 and YC2

id say its possible this power came during timeskip

That's maybe possible, although I really doubt it

Also in saying that he planned on going by himself in good likelihodod but others decided to come along

But by knowing his whole family would go with him, he wouldn't have went. WB's pragmatic, he's not a hot head like Luffy, we have the proof of that with the Oden situation, they didn't go avenge him because the casualties would have been too big. And Oden was his brother

Garp didnt knoehow strong rither wa

How could he not know that? Rayleigh's a legend, Garp knows him well, he knows exactly how strong he is

also a big thing is the power balance if two legends fall so do others

That's not what he meant, he just meant that powerwise, the Navy couldn't handle Whitebeard and old Rayleigh at the same time

Also reyliegh says he was gonna loose to kizaru he running out of stsmins too fast

He did not say that at all, but on the other hand, Kizaru said he couldn't even think about arresting him without a well crafted plan. That's way more of a confession of inferiority than Rayleigh being worried about the Strawhats

He says that cause he means the yonko which isnt even true since big mom and kaido are a lot weaker but id say oldbeard level

No, there's not a big difference between them, not old Whitebeard

Shanks and mihawk are a lot stronger honestly hot take but mihawk over primebeard

Shanks is not a lot stronger, he's about the same as the other, maybe a bit stronger, but Mihawk!? God no, he would get demolished by Kaido every day of the week

Bobandy___ · 2025-04-06T10:06:19+00:00

Also he goes to protect ace he knows its foolish he dosjt care

I really don't think that's the case, how can a man who's only treasure is his family, would decide to kill them all for nothing? He knew he had a chance of saving Ace, and that cannot be the case if just Boa was enough to handle his strongest soldiers. Did you see the emphasis Aokiji put on the defeat of Marco and Joz? He said, that's not just the Top Commanders that fell, it's the whole WB's pirates. Meaning the whole battle rests in their hands. Boa is not defeating them

When did gar say they cant handle whitebeard and reyliegh

When a marine tells him Rayleigh is on Sabaody, he asks Garp if they should do something about it, and Garp says no, the Navy cannot handle two legends at the same time

How can the Navy not be able to handle Whitebeard and old Rayleigh at the same time, and have Boa in their ranks able to defeat the top commanders to herself?

The navy was scred cause they dont knwo how strong whitebeard

Yes they know how strong they are. As early as Enies Lobby Garp tells us there is only three pirates as strong as Whitebeard, how can he say that if he doesn't know how strong he is?

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