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In order to maintain the health and safety of our staff and customers as far as possible, we are implementing the following updates to our policies and procedures: Every instrument that ships from, or returns to, the shop will be ultrasonically cleaned (instruments with redrot or gold plate will be chemically cleaned).Our trial period will increase to 14 days, so that customers will have extra time to let the instrument sit prior to opening the box and testing it.Each instrument will ship with …

ACB in the time of COVIDKansas City has extended the COVID stay-at-home policy until mid May. Thankfully, we'll be able to work as a "soft-open" with small teams in the shop starting today! We're offering curbside pickup until June 1 as well. I'm proud to say we're still here for you! For more details, click the link to my shop update video!We are working 8-10 hours a day answering our phones and emails. We have plenty of time to talk shop, and we're available by Zoom, Skype, and Facetime for co …

Hi everyone! Patrick here, hoping you're having a fantastic day out there today. I wish I could be at the shop shipping out some goodies to you but Kansas City is still under a stay at home order. That doesn't mean work has stopped, though! I've been doing some work on our YouTube channel (the sort of stuff that often gets left on the back burner because shipping you trumpets is frankly more important), including a bunch of new thumbnail images and updating our tags and descriptions. And in case …

We have a lot of rare and unusual trumpets that come through the shop. It's one of the coolest things about ACB! We decided to start a "video museum" on YouTube to catalogue all of the coolest horns we get or have sold over the years. Many of these instruments have sold, some are still for sale, and of course we're getting trumpets in all the time. As always, you can give us a call if you're interested in a particular instrument! Visit our YouTube channel and binge-watch over 60 videos of vintag …

We've been making some updates to our internet presence, and one new feature we've added is a YouTube playlist of our trumpet showdown videos! Our goal with these videos is to have a resource for our customers who can't always make it into the shop to try out horns. Check out the videos through the link below, and let us know which trumpets are your favorites!>>>Take me to the videos!<<< …