December 2007 Newsletter

Seasons Greetings to all of our customers and friends! Wishing all of you good health and happiness for the coming year. Another victorious year at Atkinson Horns. This success has been through hard work and diligence. We are constantly striving to perfect our processes and products. This year we have gone entirely eco friendly with 100% recycling . Also we have just finished making all of our tooling for valve manufacturing out of stainless steel so that all Atkinson Horns will be consistent for decades to come. The Atkinson AG2000 and Erfurt Horns continue to reign down havoc upon our competition. We have made many Geyer horns in brass, nickel and red brass this year. The same be said of our Erfurt Horns which can be made in ambronze also. Horn players are visiting us from around the world to try our Horns and tour our facilities. Apart from making horns we continue to offer excellent repair including, well everything! This repair is enhanced by our well equipped factory facilities. New craftsman have been added to facilitate turnaround as well as new processes to improve quality. Atkinson Horns was invited to give several workshop clinics including the Santa Barbara Horn workshop given by Professor Steve Gross and the N. W. Horn workshop hosted by Dr. David Saunders and friend Max Bearden along with other conventions and workshops this year. A special visit by the San Francisco horn section at our factory to play and critique the Atkinson-Geyer truly capped the year. We were so impressed with the skill of the S.F. horn section as they were with our manufacturing expertise. Another highlight for the year. Bb and high Bb descants as well as Bb Alto F descants coming in 2008!!