Title: Interesting Prototype But Not Ready For the Showroom
Product review: If you like collecting novelties or interesting historical artifacts, this may prove to be one. There are at least new ideas coming forth in the area of harmonica physics and one might become an amazing product. I waited a month before I wrote this because I wanted to be fair to the incredible effort that went into designing this and making it affordable. Sorry, but it is hard to NOT bend notes and thus the sound "pallete" becomes very un-chromatic. It's good for honking but too much honking without contrast is dull. Contrary to what you might believe, Little Walter did more than just honk. He contrasted dirty and pretty sounds with his "Mississippi Saxophone" like a jazz master. My advice: use the money to buy a chromatic harmonica, or, buy Howard Levy's video "New Directions for Harmonica" and get some basics on playing a ten-hole diatonic chromatically by using that "simple" instrument expressively and imaginatively.
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