Tools of His Craft | ||
Kiyoshi's dedication to his music is not limited to
crafting fine songs and perfecting his performing skills. It also
extends to the tools that he uses. Kiyoshi is not just a master at the
guitar, but he has made an
 effort
to be an accomplished player of a wide variety of other instruments;
traditional and not-so-traditional. For example, in order to get the
sounds he wanted, in the album "songs from the sidewalk saloon," Kiyoshi
not only played his Lotus™ guitar, but also performed on a
piano, banjo, sitar, gu zheng, dumbek, organ, tar, drum machine
and drum set, harmonium, shakers,glokenspeil, tambura, a key scraped on a little bone skull, and a glass bottle full of mahjong pieces.Kiyoshi's Lotus guitar is a prime example of his passion for mastering all aspects of his craft. Not satisfied to just buy a guitar, he wanted to thoroughly grasp all aspects of the instrument and assimilate the guitar's full potential. To this end, Kiyoshi committed himself to building an instrument that conformed to his needs and desires. The result of this endeavor, working under the tutelage of a master luthier in England, is his custom-made Lotus guitar. |
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