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Cornelius Boots
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Cornelius Boots playing a Taimu shakuhachi bamboo flute.
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Cornelius Boots (Cornelius Shinzen Boots) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.[1] Best known for founding and leading Edmund Welles, the only composing bass clarinet quartet in the world[citation needed], he now mainly plays and composes for the shakuhachi flute having retired from bass clarinet in 2015[2]
He received his shakuhachi master teaching’s license (Shihan)[3] from Grand Master Michael Chikuzen Gould[4] in 2013. He has recorded five albums and performs internationally.[5] He played on stage during Sony's E3 2018 conference, prior to the reveal of Ghost of Tsushima, a samurai-based video game.
Boots mostly plays taimu shakuhachi, which are long, wide-bore flutes noted for their deep tones.[6]
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