I am now playing a P.Mauriat tenor. Major move as I have been playing Mk6 tenors all my life. It's just that at some point vintage horns are just going to be surpassed - despite "mass" production methods - the technology has just developed too far to ignore. On that note I have to add that I visited the factories on a recent trip to Taiwan and was blown away by just how much hand-building goes into these horns.
I first discovered them at the 2004 Saxophone Conference in Bangkok. Some local players had been raving about them but I'd never found a new instument that could give me "The Sound", so I hadn't paid too much attention to the ravers. Then I met the manufacturer Alex Hsieh who had his best horns on display and I spent the rest of the conference going back to his stand over and over in disbelief that thay could actually sound and feel that good.
I now endorse them and am playing the tenor on all my gigs. Not only that but I am so convinced that this horn works that I'm actually importing them into Malaysia and Singapore. |
