Author: eskil
Date: 2004-06-14 15:01
I checked out the ebay Strasser - looks nice. I found another one much closer to me, though, here in Sweden - it is on its way via mail to me from a shop right now, for evaluation and buying (if the evaluation works out nicely).
One of the clarinet technicians at the shop in question, (Windcorp in Gothenburg, Sweden), had some info about the Strasser clarinets: according to him, the Strasser name was used by SML for clarinets made by apprentices, as opposed to instruments built by the master builders. According to him, they are NOT students instruments, they are better than that, but they were built by staff that were not fully trained yet (as in not yet a master builder - they were in no way poorly trained, they were just still not master builders).
So some Strassers might be lacking in some respect compared to the top level SMLs, or they might not - it depends on exactly how good the apprentice in question was (and some Strassers might be just as good as the top level SML clarinets). But they wouldn't let a bad instrument through, though - and the apprentices wouldn't be promoted to master builders if their clarinets weren't of top notch quality, so they would obviously do their best.
He said that this is what they said at SML, when he asked them about it a few years ago. Oh yeah, and he said that he has never seen an instrument of any kind from SML that was bad, Strassers or not, so the apprentices must have been good, if the story is true. (But then again, he was trying to sell me a Strasser clarinet, so...)
/Eskil
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