UPDATE:
I changed it up a little bit.
Still have the Silverplated 6M-VIII, but I was asked to sit in with a big band this past weekend. My b-day was 2 days before, sounded like a good excuse to finally pick up a new mpc. I went and tried a Meyer 5M and 6M. The reeds I had were too hard (using them on a Caravan... yeah... not gonna work), but the 6M blew well, and I checked the intonation, it was SOOOO much better than the Caravan intonation wise. I got it home and played with some reeds from the vault... found an old Rico Select Jazz 3S that had been sanded to near perfection back in the day. Slapped it on, and started to get a bit closer to the sound in my head.
I sight read 28 pieces during a 3.5 hour practice session with the new mpc, and loved it. I did the big band gig at noon:30, and then (without telling the conductor, a sax player when he's not flailing his arms), played our final concert of the year (a community band doing about a 70 minute program) on the new mpc. There were some exposed sax sections (I play lead 2nd part with 3 altos behind me. 70+ y/o woman on a 1937 6M-VIII with some original pads (and its a VERY worn horn, been in her family since new), a middle age'd guy with a LeBlanc Rationale with all the original lit still in the case, it was a fun catalogue to look through, and the fingering chart was crazy! There is also a person new to the sax with a pawn shop Bundy II with I believe a stock mpc. I MEANT to check her horn out before the summer, and I think I need to try to get her into at LEAST something like a Yamaha 4C mpc.
Wait... where was I going with this?
1945 Silverplated Conn 6M-VIII
R. Caravan or Meyer 6M
Rico Select Jazz 3M/Gonzales 3.5 (Caravan), Rico Select Jazz 3S (Meyer)
Rovner Light lig or Rovner Eddie Daniels (1st gen, yeah, I think I'm the only one that has one anymore).
**BRENT**