"Metal is the most popular, and we use a lot of unlacquered brass," Mr. McKinley said.
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Some finishes, like unlacquered brass and oil-rubbed bronze, are intended to develop a timeworn patina as the hardware is used.
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If you're tired of standard chrome faucets and towel bars, choose a less common finish, like copper, unlacquered brass or matte black.
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"I love unlacquered brass, because it gets a beautiful patina, but a lot of people may not like it because they think it starts to look dirty," she said.
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He also designed a monumental range hood and custom brass shelf brackets; installed an unlacquered brass faucet from Waterworks; and had Bednark give all the metal the same antiqued finish.
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Unlacquered brass and some antiqued, copper and bronze finishes will develop a patina with use — or what Ms. Merrill called a "living finish" — while others, like chrome, will continue to look new.
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Materials and finishes in the apartments include pale oak floors, hand-scraped oak cabinetry, marble countertops and unlacquered brass plumbing fixtures from Waterworks that are intended to develop a patina with age.
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He wears ultralight black leather gloves, which he dampens just before a performance to create the same bonding effect. He uses heavy, unlacquered Vic Firth 5B sticks.
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Older Komuso and Myoan shakuhachi also share this trait, though unlike Hotchiku they usually have an inlaid blowing edge. This property, along with the unlacquered bore, results in a rough and breathy timbre. Because of its extremely natural construction, the hotchiku is commonly used for suizen 吹禅 (blowing Zen meditation). Playing traditional honkyoku would only be attempted by highly technically skilled shakuhachi musicians since the blowing and fingering techniques required for honkyoku have to be altered considerably.
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Roshi (November 20, 1911 - December 14, 1992) was a master of the end-blown Japanese bamboo flute. He studied Rinzai Zen, attaining the title of roshi. Born as Tanaka Masaru, he was also known as Tanaka Fumon, Iccho Fumon, Watazumi Fumon, and Watazumi Shuso. Watazumi played unlacquered instruments that he referred to as hocchiku, in contrast with the modern shakuhachi, stressing that to truly understand nature and oneself, one had to use an instrument of the most raw and natural origin.
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Natural utaguchi without inlay , sometimes romanized as hocchiku or hochiku, is a Japanese end-blown aerophone, crafted from root sections of bamboo. After cleaning and sanding, the heavy root end of the bamboo stalk reveals many small circular knots where the roots formerly joined the stalk. The same part of the bamboo plant is also used to produce the shakuhachi but, unlike the shakuhachi, the hotchiku's inside (bore) and outside surfaces are left unlacquered, and an inlay is not used in the mouthpiece. The membranes at the nodes inside a hotchiku bore are generally left more intact than those of a shakuhachi, though older komuso shakuhachi also share this trait.
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