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Re: Kannon the Merciful
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, William Walker wrote:
My dear friend Mando Man, other wise known as Hideki Nakanishi built
me an extraordinaire lap steel guitar and today i posted an
improvisation on youtube playing this amazing instrument, also of
note is that Ryusei Hattori did an amazing relief carving of the
goddess Kannon on the headstock. and Leander Reininghaus provided a
rockinger made multi bender bridge to achieve individual string pulls
like a pedal steel guitar. Though i'm still getting my sea legs with
the bridge, what I have found so far is really inspiring.
Thanks and enjoy
Bill
You know, Bill, after having seen this amazing instrument and hearing
the truly beautiful and unique music that's been
emanating from your garage/studio since you came into possession of
it, it occurs to me:
You and I have spent so many years experimenting with different global
traditions in our music:
How appropriate is it, that this guitar becomes a unique trans-global
experience that could only occur in this
particular epoch:
Two Japanese artisans hand craft an experiment essentially designed by
an American with Scottish, Danish and Cherokee roots,
facilitated by a German musician and with an Indian Hindu deity,
handcarved into the head stock.
I've seen it and it's one of the most wonderful instruments I've ever
seen..............truly one of a kind and priceless.........
..................Not unlike you!
You deserve it and it deserves you. Bless Hideki, Ryusei and
Leander for contributing to it's beauty
and bless you for the artistry that you will (and have already) brought
to it.