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Hello everyone! I do hope you are well and we are so thankful for all you do for us here at ACB.  As these times are currently oh so fluid I wanted to reach out to everyone with a brief message about the tariffs here and how they are impacting the shop.     Right now here at the shop we actually have a ton of products in the shop and our offsite warehouse.  In fact we did our best to try to stay ahead of these large 145%  tariffs from China and have well over 1,00 …

See you at TMEA next week!I'm so excited to be back at TMEA next week! Join us February 8-11th in beautiful San Antonio at booth 774. We'll have plenty of  cool horns, mouthpieces, mutes, and cases on display!    We'll have amazing horns from ACB,  Adams, Schagerl,  Bohme,  AR Resonance,  Blackburn, Possegger,  Kanstul,  BAC,  Shires,  Getzen, and more! Plenty of Gard Bags, Doublers, and more will be available at the show but most likel …

Big announcement! We are super excited to have Karl Schagerl and Hans Petter Stanges in the shop next Tuesday, the 17th. 11-3 will be the free exhibit time at our KC  showroom.  They'll be bringing a bunch of horns #schagerl Schagerl Meisterinstrumente Karl SchagerlEmail us for more details!  …

Here's a bit of some recent arrivals to the shop for some eye Candy! I just love the lines of this Scherzer Piccolo! You've heard of Coppernicus... but have you seen "Goldilocks"?  This is a rare (only 1 in existence) custom Coppernicus in this finishTrent Just did a video of this cool modular trumpet today: Looking for something a bit more traditional?   Check out the classic 1940 Conn 22b New York Symphony:A new addition for my collection  this is a …

ITG is my favorite week of the year. It's always a special time to catch up with friends, have lots of laughs, hear incredibly inspiring performances, learn from fabulous presentations, and geek out at the exhibits... Sadly, due to COVID-19, we'll all be missing out. I'm especially bummed because this year I was hosting a few of the jam sessions and also presenting a workshop to comeback players. But, just because we won't all be in Columbus, doesn't mean you can't take advantage of our ITG sale …