Author: eskil
Date: 2004-08-26 22:44
Hey, Vytas!
Regarding the Marigaux being the top-of-the-line of SML's clarinets - didn't SML stop using the model names Strasser and Lemaire towards the end of their clarinet making days, instead calling all their clarinets Marigaux, with model numbers signifying if it was a student's model or a pro model? I have heard of a Marigaux S200 or something, that seemed to be a younger relative of my Strasser student model - which definitely is a students model, the mechanism looks a bit like "it will get the job done so let's leave it as it is - it doesn't have to look perfect", and the sound is very nice but doesn't really go that much further than that (I'm one of those who had high expectations and even if I'm not really disappointed, I had hoped for more!). This guy I spoke to bought this Marigaux S200 (or whatever its model number was) new several years ago as a student clarinet, and I think the top-of-the-line models had a model number around 800 or so? My idea was to upgrade from a Strasser to a Marigaux, but this particular Marigaux seemed like not much of an upgrade.
My thought here is that SML nowadays perhaps thinks of Marigaux more as a manufacturer name than as a model name? And that this "made by Marigaux" would mean about the same as "made by SML"? Their oboes all seem to be called "Marigaux" plus a model number, without any mentioning of SML at all, nowadays. So this mystery Roché-Thomas could be a stencil made by SML, with the name Marigaux merely signifying that it was made at SML, and not signifying that it is a pro model?
Just a thought, and not much of a help for Per (but judging from your pics, it looks like a well-manufactured horn - it is hard to tell for sure, but it looks better built than my Strasser, and it certainly isn't as worn).
regards, Eskil
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