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Join ACB and Josh in Hot Springs, VA for the 2019 VMEA Conference! The exhibit hall is open 11/20-11/23! Come hang and try trumpets, mouthpieces, and trombones! Plus tons of fun concerts and clinics at the conference as well! Check out the VMEA website for conference info.Hope to see you there! 

These pieces (including my Daily Driver the MV 1.5C) are based on classic Bach Mount Vernon and New York mouthpieces. Modernized and optimized by me they give a "classic" sound and play wonderfully! Check them out here!  NY1: This originally started out as a CMM scan of a very early New York Bach 1 mouthpiece. The cup and rim are very similar, the backbore and throat are mated with this cup to produce a very large sound shape. Matched to my O backbore it is a great orchestra …

Join Josh at the 2019 NCMEA Conference in Winston-Salem NC this weekend! ACB will be exhibiting 11/9-11/11 in the Benton Convention Center! Come try trumpets, trombones, and mouthpieces!For more info go to https://www.ncmea.net/

I've just landed from a week of prototyping with my friends at Adams. It was a fantastic week. Working with Miel's energy and creativity is always inspiring! Here's a brief video of the new design:I'd say the new A1 model is brighter than the A2 but not as bright as the A5. It's going to be an excellent commercial and versatile horn for anyone looking for sparkle and brilliance in the sound. Adams periodically redesigns their models but since they don't want to make more than 10 models they …