Shime Tightening

Last night we had one last rehearsal, but we kind of realized that we were pretty solid on everything, so it didn't take that long. So we tightened shime. I like tightening shime. We were using Kris' one-person method, although we cheated and actually two of us were doing it. One person to pull, the other holding on to the tension. Less bending over. We did both of Janet's shime, and then as a bonus, she offered to help me tighten mine. I was kind of excited because I've only ever tightened it on my own, and I know I can't get it as tight as two people could. She's got a technique of using two age-bachi at the beginning, which is impressive to see.

Boy did I do a lot of those standing pulls. If there's something like 20 pulls per drum, and we did 3 drums, then that's like 60 pulls! I was kind of zombie by the time I got home, but it was so worth it because those shime were chirping like little birds. Kanki is going to be awesome.