I wanted to reach out and say thank you for such a rich and ornate looking and sounding instrument. My students have been absolutely enthralled by it and I would say my more drum-set oriented students were actually the first ones to start playing it aside from myself and a few others after setting it up. The set-up was extremely simple, and the unboxing/set-up guide you e-mailed was perfect. I made sure to brag about how clean and pristine everything was with the packaging and logistics of shipping/setting it up from the box to a couple of our brass professors, who also were wowed by it!
It's been a lot of fun to experience a brand-new design for keyboard percussion and figure out how the instrument is layed out on my own; it's been fun to hear my students' different interpretations of how they think of it and where they like to stand at while playing. I think I have a couple students who already have a piece "written" haha
The resonators are extremely unique too with how they "can" sway, and they look super cool with all the different sizes; it almost seemed like they were packaged based off where they needed to be placed. The blue on the finish is a great touch too and matches our University colors pretty well! I also love that one resonator (I think it's a D3) that is like less than half an inch away from the wheel lock; that is just awesome to me.
Thank you again for building and sending us a one-of-a-kind instrument.