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Is it time to finally upgrade over your rental instrument or get your first professional trombone?Eric Chapman from ACB talks about trombones for students. Buying a trombone can be exciting but also overwhelming knowing where to start and what is good for a student's needs and budget (or their parent's budget). At Austin Custom Brass we recognize the desire for sounding great but that sometimes that top-of-the-line trombone is not the right fit right now. Eric recently had a student go through s …

Good afternoon from the shop! I just wanted to remind everyone that I am giving myself and my amazing staff a much needed break after the insane year!While we will have a few staffers in every day we won't be back to full capacity at ACB until 1/4/22. Appointments will be very limited so call or email the shop with any questions. Please understand we all need a bit of time to decompress, relax, and recover from the absolute CRAZIEST year ever. Crazy GREAT thanks to all of your support!Thanks aga …

It’s good to have great friends in the business world and Josh Landress has always been there for ACB since we have opened our doors. He’s a trusted friend, someone I can bounce ideas off of, an amazing businessman, and incredible craftsman!I have asked him for years (maybe a decade) to make me one of his custom trumpets… I first played one at the 2011 NAMM show (I think that was the year… I’m lucky to remember what I had for breakfast most days lately!) and was simply blown away by the eas …

Hey everyone!   I do hope everybody's doing well and is staying safe in these covert times.I just wanted to take a few moments to s hare this newest video that we've done of this incredible trumpet that we just got into the shop.  As you may or may not know our YouTube channel is quite busy lately and we have so many new videos coming up in our show and tell video series I'll link that playlist below the video of this trumpet. What do you think about this design?  H …

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 …