if you turn on Closed Captions, you can set it to auto-translate from the generated japanese captions. It works well enough to get the general gist of what he's saying
Hello Mr, Masato Honda i'm your fans in Hongkong how are you sir? you are the most fantastic professional musician in history in Japan about Jazz and i like jazz fusion actually that why i always watch your presentation in you tube & also your past concert. I like your EWI electronic instrument very good sounds i hope you can reply and understand my english...thanks
Hello, this is an amazing gift. It brightened my day!! I don't speak Japanese but I feel like I was able to pick up on what he was saying, that's why music is so amazing. The universal language! Could someone translate the answer to a question for me? His red, yellow, and Blue Ewis are so amazing, does he have someone do custom paint jobs to those instruments? If I could buy one right now I would. Thank you master Masato Honda!!
Looks like most of those colored ewis were made by AKAI specially for Honda, so unfortunately we can't buy them. By the way, the yellow ewi is a special ewi for the Hanshin Tigers, which is a professional baseball team in Japan. He uses that ewi when he plays at the baseball team's home stadium in Kobe. The blue on is a Benetton Formula 1 edition, which was made when AKAI was a sponsor of the F1 industry. The red one was made when AKAI told Honda that they will make a special ewi just for Honda. Honda asked them to make a Ferrari-ish ewi, and this Italian colored one was made. The special keys that can be seen in the picture is an attachment where the keys become movable, since normal ewi keys are just touch sensors that don't move, which could be uncomfortable for sax players. He said that the red one was his favorite. They're all cool looking ewis indeed!
@@user-nt9vu7qk3u wow!! Thank you so much for the thoughtful response. That is some cool history behind each of those instruments! It's too bad Akai never decided to market the colorful Ewis. It's so cool that Masato decided to share this with us. Once again thanks so much for your time!!
MrGreenLantern no problem! In case you really want a colorful original EWI, ameblo.jp/yoshmeme/entry-12567235099.html This is a blog written by an endorser of Akai. It’s about how you can paint or paste sheets to make a colorful original EWI. It’s all written in Japanese, but I think the pictures and figures included are really helpful. The important part is that you have to avoid using electrically conductive paint or sheets, and to use masking tape around the keys when you paint so that you don’t accidentally connect different keys electrically and ruin your EWI. Enjoy!!
That was awesome (at least the played parts since I don't know a single word of japanese xD)! Any chance someone could explain what is the use of the sticky tape on the bend sensor and on the screw in the bottom of the EWI? That seemed very informative.
He said that he puts tape on his under bend switch because the switch’s sensitivity was too high and rapid! He doesn’t put tape on the upper switch cause he only uses it about once in a year. Also, the tape on the screw (he said that it’s a switch for adjustments) avoids him from mistakenly adjusting his EWI. Hope this helps!!
@@user-nt9vu7qk3u hey could you explain a little bit more about this video? I wanted to know a bit more about which sound he is using on the 3020 and how he bites on the mouthpiece.
ddoggy Sure! It sees that you’ve asked Honda a question at around 19:20, so I’ll translate his answer. He said that indeed he uses axis a lot. In fact, he uses axis in most of the songs except TAKARAJIMA. He also said that he was one of the members who actually made that sound with AKAI when the 3020 was invented. Occasionally, he edits his sounds since he likes playing around with synthesizers. I’m afraid he didn’t talk that much about his ambushure.
