Re: Kannon the Merciful

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

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.