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His artist name at his debut was , and he formed a band named No Score with his classmates at high school which later became

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. Originally he was the lead vocalist, but since

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joined, he became the lead guitarist and provided backing vocals. He is also a guitarist for THE Yatou. He was married to actress

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from 2008 to 2021, and they have two children together.

Instruments used

Electric guitars

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**1960

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Standard No. 0 0599 (main) **1958 Les Paul Custom "Factory Original Bigsby" **1965 ES-345 **Custom Shop Historic Collection 1959 Les Paul Standard '00 **Custom Shop Historic Collection 1960 Les Paul Standard **Custom Shop Historic Collection 1959 Les Paul Standard No. 9 1273 **Custom Shop Historic Collection 1968 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty #015328 **Memphis Chris Cornell ES-335 Flat Black **Custom Shop CS-336 Plain Top **Les Paul Junior Limited Edition (until 2011, he donated to charity) **1996 Les Paul Standard **1981 ES-335TD **ES-165 **

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** Custom Shop Master Built Series 1957

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Made by John English '05 (main) **Telecaster Haruichi Model (Replica of the main guitar above. Realized by a collaboration project with a fan club and Fender Japan in 2016) **Custom Shop Master Built Series 1957

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Made by John English **Custom Shop Master Built Series Stratocaster Made by Yuriy Shishkov **Custom Shop Master Built Series 60's Telecaster Made by Todd Krause **Custom Shop 1960 Stratocaster Relic #R41857 **1959 Custom Esquire **1974 Stratocaster **1975 Telecaster Deluxe **1976 Stratocaster *Others **

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Modern Eagle Faded Blue Jean **Sago New Material Guitars Signature Model No. 1 Black **Sago New Material Guitars Signature Model No. 2 White **Sago New Material Guitars Signature Model No. 3 Blue Burst **Killer Prime Original Black & Prime Original Yellow **

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1969 White Falcon **Gretsch Duo Jet 6128 with Bigsby **

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Model **G&L Asat Special With Bigsby **Jerry Jones Baby Sitar **G'Seven Guitars g7 Special g7-JM Custom Order Model (Jazzmaster Type) **Washburn N3 Original davies reissue ** Line 6 James Tyler Variax JTV-59 Black

Acoustic guitars

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HD-28V (main) *Martin Pre War 000-28 *Martin 000-28EC (until 2011, he donated to charity) *Gibson Les Paul Acoustic *Gibson Chester Atkins CEC *Gibson J-50 *Greco Zematis GZA-1800 Tiny Heart *

Ovation The ovation ( from ''ovare'': to rejoice) was a lesser form of the Roman triumph. Ovations were granted when war was not declared between enemies on the level of nations or states; when an enemy was considered basely inferior (e.g., slaves, pira ...

2003 Collector's Edition *Alvarez Yairi WK1-12BK *Kohno Guitar Manufacture Concert-J, etc.

Amplifiers

*Groove Tubes Trio *Matchless DC-30 *Marshall 1973X *Marshall 1974X *Marshall 1987X *Marshall JCM800 *Reinhardt Storm 33 *Fender Twin-Reverb *Fender Vibro-King Custom *Fender Bassman *Vox AC30BM (

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Custom Limited Edition) From his early debut to around 2007, the Trio, DC-30, and JCM series were used live. Currently it is mainly the combination of Old Marshall and DC-30. On the other hand, amplifier simulators such as Kemper are used as a sub.

Provided musical lyrics

Filmography

Radio

; Regular

Television

; Regular ;Special occasion

Films

Bibliography

Monographs

*''Jitaku nite'' Sony Magazines – taking a column serialised in the music magazine ''Pati Pati'' (released 24 December 2005 )

Serialisations

*"Jitaku nite" – serialised in the music magazine ''Pati Pati'' (February 2001 issue – April 2005 issue, 51 times in total) *"haru.cam" – posted pictures and comments for himself at the music magazine ''B.Pass'' (May 2006 issue – already finished) *"Hiroshima Carp Fan mo Umi o Wataru" – he was writing a column about baseball at the Major League information magazine ''Slugger'' (May 2006 issue – serialising) *"Otoko no Kōkan Nikki" – posted alternately with Akihito at the female fashion magazine " an an" (20 June 2006 – June 2007) *"Tokinoo" – Novel. Serialized in the magazine ''papyrus'' (February 2008 issue – April 2009)

Novels

* ''Toki no O'' Gentosha – book of the novel "Tokinoo" (released 15 May 2010 ) * ''The Rules'' (released September 2017 )

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shindo, Haruichi Living people 1974 births Musicians from Hiroshima Prefecture Japanese rock guitarists Japanese lyricists Japanese male composers Amuse Inc. talents 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese guitarists 21st-century Japanese male singers