Riley Kelly Lee (born 1951) is an American-born Australian-based shakuhachi player and teacher. In 1980 he became the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Dai Shihan (grand master) in the shakuhachi tradition. Riley Lee was born in Plainview， Texas， of a Chinese father and Caucasian mother. He moved to Shawnee， Oklahoma in 1957， where， aged 13， he became the bass player of the award winning rock band "The Workouts". He and his family moved to Hawaii in 1966. He first heard the shakuhachi in 1967 while attending high school in Hawaii， on an LP recording brought home by his elder brother. About the same time， his father gave him a dongxiao， a Chinese bamboo flute whose ancestry is shared with the shakuhachi， and taught him an old Chinese folksong on it.