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“They get too close to the horn with the mikes and don’t give the sound time to travel as they should. Consequently, they don’t get enough of the real timbre and they miss the whole body of the sound. They get the inside of it but not the outside as well.”
Coltrane - The Story of a Sound
Coltrane - The Story of a Sound
Kakimaze Pilot Playing Shakuhachi
I found this image here. It’s the last one on the page and it is labeled “Kamikaze pilot playing shakuhachi – 1943″. Anything I say (and I tried) falls short of the capacity of this image – so I won’t say anything. Enjoy
(Courtesy of Tom Caperton)