Even though we crafters can exert all kinds of control to evolve our sound engineering in the instruments we make, the true beauty is in the fact that it's simply a hollow stick. A pure and natural beautiful thing. I'm not excited by fancy inlays and tricky joinery. I've already seen furniture crafters do really impressive stuff. Let's dig some beauty as only mother nature can deliver. Plays every bit as good as it looks. Well balanced. Matching trumpet. Comfortable as a slow and harmonic meditator or as a fast percussive beast. Cascara is similar to Alder in density and offers a warmer more comfortable tone than harder denser timbers. It's uncommon that I have something this unique in shaping and natural features that also plays so sweetly.