i’m amazed at how much softly you can make a guardala sound using a plate made out of a reed instead of using a plate made out of metal in the ligature that holds down the reed.
you can hear how soft the sax is from 0:27 at the end of softly section, it gradually gets louder in the music sheet. I couldn’t get that soft gentle sound with a metal plate, the overall pitch sounds more wooden even in the loud sections of the sheet