P.Mauriat

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P.Mauriat is a saxophone manufacturing company based in Taiwan.

According to the "brand concept" page on the company's web site,[1] the company was named after French conductor/composer Paul Mauriat in order to associate the company with Mauriat's music and lifestyle. Its products bear the inscription "P.Mauriat PARIS," but the instruments are manufactured in Taiwan.

1 Product information
- 1.1 Models manufactured
2 Company information
3 External link

[edit] Product information

The company makes several different saxophone models, from student to professional.

Several professional musicians have endorsed the brand, including James Carter, Wayne Escoffery, Roger Greenberg, Ron Kearns, and Greg Lyons.

The saxophones are hand made in Taiwan using brass imported from France.

[edit] Models manufactured

Soprano
- PMSS 64 - straight
- PMSS 601DK - tipped bell
- PMSC 2400 - curved
- SYSTEM 76
Alto
- PMSA 202
- PMSA 2302 - copper finish
- PMSA 67
- PMXA 67R - rolled tone holes
- PMA 500BX - black nickel plate
- PMSA 60NS - nickel silver
- PMSA 300SL - sterling silver
- PMSA 300SLG - sterling silver with gold plate
- SYSTEM 76
Tenor
- PMST 202
- PMST 2304 - copper finish
- PMST 66
- PMXT 66R - rolled tone holes
- PMT 500BX - black nickel plate
- PMST 60NS - nickel silver
- PMST 300SL - sterling silver
- PMST 300SLG - sterling silver with gold plate
- SYSTEM 76
Baritone
- PMB - 300DK
- PMB - 301LG - sterling silver with gold plate

[edit] Company information

The company was started in 1999 by Alex Hsieh, a Taiwanese businessman who owns and operates the company.

Alex is a business man who loves the saxophone as much as any person I know. I didn’t know he owned a saxophone company until he showed me one of his early saxophones. [...] Alex Hsieh not only loves the saxophone; he is crazy about the saxophone. He listens to saxophone all day, and at night after dinner with his family, he goes back to his office to practice every day. - Roger Greenberg, saxophonist, quoted on P.Mauriat web site[2]