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Michael Rath Trombones (Rath Trombones)

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Model Bell Slide Gooseneck / Valve Tuning Slide Leadpipe R9 Nickel Silver Bronze dual bore Hagmann / Heavy Cap Nickel Silver 9LN Rath Artist Mark Frost started playing tenor trombone aged 11 having lessons from the Rotherham Music Service. He was asked to join the Rotherham Schools Band on bass trombone because he was the only person able to read bass clef. At age 13 he was asked to join the Yorkshire Schools Band and also Barnsley Chronicle Band, eventually successfully auditioning for the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. Mark was invited to join Brighouse and Rastrick when he turn

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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.