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CarolBrass: It’s all about QUALITY…

 

When you see these instruments for the first time, you are totally taken back by the superb craftsmanship, innovative attention to detail and solid build quality. And they follow through with outstanding performance, playing on par with and better than many of the big bucks limited production professional horns.

 

Hoxon Gakki Corporation of Taiwan began as a small family business in 1989, building quality brass instruments for other companies, sold under various well-known name brands. Gradually increasing in size and production over the years, they have maintained their original small business work ethic and commitment to quality while still supplying various manufacturers with top flight instruments and parts.

 

In 2002 their own company branded line was introduced, now called CarolBrass.  These are definitely NOT cheap copies of name brand designs like you see coming out of many mainland China factories. CarolBrass builds instruments tailored to fit the many varied playing needs and styles of the professional brass musician, as well as offering great-playing, high quality student and intermediate grade models. As you browse through the CarolBrass Catalog, you will see evidence that CarolBrass listens to what players are asking for, building the various features into their ever increasing model lines, and continuing to do it all with impeccable quality at very fair prices.

 

About the STAINLESS STEEL VALVES

in CarolBrass products: Stainless prevents oxidation that leads to both valve sticking and wear, but since it is a harder metal it is more difficult to work with and get consistently accurate results. This manufacturer invested in the computerized design and machining processes necessary to successfully produce close tolerance stainless valves since the company’s inception in 1989. Over 20 years of success has proven this design superior in reliability and longevity to virtually all others. What this means to us as players is that the valves not only operate wonderfully well, but combined with their well thought out mouthpipe designs and overall solid build quality CarolBrass trumpets and flugelhorns provide the ultimate in slotting and extreme register control.

 

What’s happened with the name?

Originally known simply as “Carol,” named after a family member, they began

gaining notoriety as the maker of the pocket trumpet that actually plays like a

professional trumpet, sold at a modest price. This growing fame caught the eye of a company in China that had evidently already laid claim to the “Carol” name, hence the changes to “Carol Brass,” and now to “CarolBrass.” Please bear with us as CarolBrass USA awaits the final development stages of the new branding and logos expected to be complete before the end of 2010.

 

Cornets & Trombones:

We are also anxiously awaiting some yet-to-reach-production cornet models that promise to be premium level offerings. Although some information appears to be out of date because CarolBrass is developing a new website to go with their new branding, you can still bring up their original website to view the coming cornets as well as trombones and other things not shown on our site yet here:

http://www.caroltrumpets.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

California Music Supply 2010