Author: cjwright
Date: 2010-06-19 05:24
I'll assume your caps are just to keep your comments straight from mine, and not a "screaming" tone as they seem to imply to me.
Laubins have a certain resistance to the air which I classify as a "Laubinish feel". I would suggest that the resistance is more, and requires more constant blowing and less variation in the speed of the wind than you would encounter with a Loree. Consequentially, the amount of sound and the effect of color that you receive back with this amount of constant blowing is the whole package of which I would classify into the term "Laubinish". And yes, I have mentioned that I am here in Arizona and have been studying with Martin Schuring this past year, and will be starting my DMA this year several times, perhaps not in this thread, so I assumed that most readers would have picked up that I was speaking of my professor.
Yes, Laubins are very polished, flawless in their silverwork. Some might argue that the ergonomics might not be to their liking as much as a Loree, but I view the issue as more of a "Some like tea, others like coffee" opinion.
Yes, the Rigoutat J is a different model from the Symphony and the Expression, which is an entirely different topic that I'd rather not get in to.
Yes, the finishing on the Rigoutat J from what I saw was more refined, but still a ways to go. I'm not saying it was a bad job, but was a ways off from what you would get from a hand-finished finely crafted job like Laubin.
Finally, nobody is "an agent" (i.e. retailer) for Laubin other than Laubin, but just about any used dealer would sell a used Laubin.
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