Best Brass

Best Brass Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments. Its product list includes instruments such as AIOLIA, ARTEMIS and APHRODITE, mouthpieces including the Groove Series and Pure Titan, silent/practice products e-BRASS, e-Sax and Warm-up, and mutes (Sound Transformers) such as Straight, Straight mini., 3-way, Cup, Wah-Wah & Cool Jazz and Gestopft. The company was founded in November 1999 and established as a corporation on April 1, 2011, with President & CEO Kota Hamanaga, based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Best Brass Corporation was founded in November 1999 in Ryuyo-cho, Iwata, and established as a corporation on April 1, 2011. Its company history records the launch of the 'Wow-Wow' (2 trumpet models) in April 2000, the Shogen-cho office (Hamamatsu) in May 2000, and the 'e-Brass' built-in electronic mute in April 2001, which received an award from the 13th Risona foundation. Further launches include 'Powerpiece' (October 2001), 'e-Brass Horn' (November 2002), 'e-Brass Trombone' (March 2003), 'e-Brass Flugelhorn' (May 2003), the 'Gestopft' world-first 'Non-transposing' stop mute (June 2003), 'e-Brass Bass Trombone' (July 2003), 'AIOLIA' (March 2004, awarded a prize by the 5th Hamamatsu city in June 2004), 'Warm-up Trombone' (August 2004), 'ARTEMIS' (July 2005), 'e-Sax Alto' world-first saxophone silencer (November 2005), 'Warm-up (Tp/Hr/Btb/Ep)' (October 2005), the Nichimachi office (Hamamatsu) (December 2005), 'e-Sax Tenor' and 'e-Sax Alto Type II' (July 2007), 'New e-Brass(trumpet)' (September 2007), 'New e-Brass(Hr/Tb/Btb)' (March 2008), the first exhibit at Musikmesse (March 2009), the 'Groove series' (56 mouthpieces) (May 2009), 'Warm-up Jr.' for trumpet (September 2009), the first exhibit at NAMM show (January 2010), and 'APHRODITE' (March 2011). The company was approved as an MI (managerially innovative) company by Shizuoka in September 2003.

• AIOLIA

• ARTEMIS

• APHRODITE

• Groove Series

• Pure Titan

• e-BRASS

• e-Sax

• Warm-up

• Warm-up Jr.

• Straight

• Straight mini.

• 3-way

• Cup

• Wah-Wah & Cool Jazz

• Gestopft

• PotStop

• PUNTO

• KAI (改)

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