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Can you believe 2024 just literally FLEW by? This has been an incredible year here at ACB... we had our best year every thanks to all of your love and support. It wasn't without a lot of adversity and changes at the shop though. That being said it is definitely going to be a wonderful year of growth, joy, and music at ACB - so much to be excited for in 2025! We have decided temporarily to hold off on raising our prices for 2025 on our ACB line of instruments. This might change after …

Join Eric May 17th and 18th in Kearney, Nebraska, for the 2024 GPRTEC and get a chance to try tubas and euphoniums while enjoying performances and clinics. Registration info and more can be found on the ITEA site. Hope to see you there!

In honor of the upcoming national holiday, I am having a Labor Day sale this weekend! Save 5% on most new and preowned instruments over $1,200 with the code LaborDay23 That includes trumpet, trombones, euphoniums, cornets, French horns, and flugels of course!  I hope you get to take some time to relax and make music this holiday weekend. Thank you so much for all you do to help make my shop a vibrant community for brass players! - Trent

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 …

FYI we have already decided to close shop for tomorrow, January 4th due to the BLIZZARD warning at the shop. I brought a bunch of work (and horns) home to list as long as I still have power... I'm going to be listing a few personal horns (my house rule is one in/one out). We'll have access to email and even a bit of phone access and will be happy to chat tomorrow in between the shoveling, freezing, and stoking the fires. Maybe I'll even throw a special blizzard code as well to hel …