I don't play for anyone else's enjoyment but my own
A couple posters here have heard me play.. that will have to do it.
I don't push any Quebec line of boxes, I pay for them.
If anything I push Jude Moreau as the best I have seen and played and bought of the Cajun Made b9xes.
He deserves the business and the exposure. Good guy, good boxes.
And on that note....
I would also heartily endorse Bryan LaFleur's boxes
And Bryan I know you were not fishing for that.
This ecommendation is based on the following without actualyy having played them:
1. Years of research and intense scrutiny of what is being built and how
2. An insistense of the highest quality possible
3. Experimentation
4. Retention of traditional connections without slavish copying
5. Beautifully designed and constructed.
6. No compromises
I think that Bryan's boxes, along with Judes are the one's to get if you want that extra effort... often something you can't see. Great value....
Keep in mind that the names of Stradivarious and Guarnari are the buzzword benchmarks of old world construction... but the lesser knowns such as Ballestriari and Zeulli and Amati, Fritsch (America) etc...often represent another undefinable quality.... and as I have said many times... elements that cause them to truly be distinctive. Excellence and often PFM.. Pure XXXXXXX Magic.