Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 696 (Q18649)

...and oddly enough, the big ... small one makes a lower sound, the bigger one makes the high sound. And they always work together. And I always liked the sound, you know, so this was something that the first time I used. And when, uh, I had other ones, for example, "Minamata," for example, Kanze (Hisao)--we call it iemoto, the one at the head of that particular style of n, you know, singing-- ...