Nice little write up by CNET about SE Shires.

"Horn in the USA: Building better brass instruments, one part at a time"

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Apparently the author played trombone while in school, so it has a little more TLC than your typical "musical instrument manufacturer" story. Bonus points that it mentions forum member, [url=https://trombonechat.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=102]Gabe Rice.

--Andy in OKC

That was a nice conversation. Funny he picked up on the detail of final fitting tuning slides...that was a tiny part of my job that I did only occasionally. I talked with him a lot about background - what players did before Shires and Edwards existed, etc.

Funny, I just read that article. It was in my google news feed. Great article, but one thing I found odd. The author wrote: "Now the market is dominated by just a few big players: Conn-Selmer, based in the US; Yamaha, based in Japan; and KHS Musical Instruments, based in Taiwan." Maybe he's saying Eastman, Schilke, MW, Thein, Haag, Voigt, etc. are smaller companies so aren't really "dominating"? But Getzen? Courtois? Pretty big companies, aren't they? And I'm sure I'm leaving out lots of others.