Hey Jake,
I had it made recently and used it for the first time on the recent upload of the Green Onions. To my ears when I play it was coming across as a little bit too harsh and thought that maybe it had to do with the blank itself. The funny thing is, my wife and some others through e-mail told me that they loved it and that it fits my personality LOL I’m having just a little minor adjustment work done to it. I had no problems playing it at all, hitting very high Altissimo notes like nothing on it and it’s very free blowing as you brought out. Dave’s work is as good as it gets, he’s been working on MPs for like 30 years or so. Yes, his MPs are definately way better than the Guardalas that were at one time available on Amazon. As you know, I got one a year ago and used it for awhile (they’re no longer available). But as time has passed and my ears have gotten more atuned to things like pitch, projection, intonation (you can thank Johnny’s lessons on ear training in the Altissimo course for that LOL) it comes across as very “flat”. I think whoever made those were just mass producing them in machine shops.
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