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Michael Rath Trombones (Rath Trombones)

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Model Bell Slide Gooseneck / Valve Tuning Slide Leadpipe R9 Nickel Bell 750N Red Brass Tuning Slide Independent Hagmann Valves (Heavy Caps) Dual Bore Yellow Slide 9B Yellow Brass R4F Yellow Bell 750Y Gold Brass Tuning Slide Hagmann Valve Single Bore Yellow Handslide 41B Yellow Brass R11K Yellow Bell 750Y Yellow J bend Yellow handslide K Leadpipe Chris Allen enjoys a busy career as a freelance performer and educator, and is a regular performer with the likes of The Paper Clips Trombone Quartet, Mankato Symphony, Metro Brass, Star of the North Jazz Orchestra, Century Jazz Ensemble, and St. Croix

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The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as MICHAEL RATH BRASS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS LIMITED, number 04233517. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Each instrument is constructed by hand in the Rath workshop in the north of England." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.