Apprentice Single Horn

B.A.C. moved forward on an opportunity to develop instruments for young musicians to assist them along their musical journey. The Apprentice Series line of instruments was an exciting project, and has continued achieving energetic endorsement from musicians and music educators around the U.S. since its inception in 2012. Mike Corrigan and his staff were inspired during their involvement with the recovery effort in New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. B.A.C. donated time and labor to service over a thousand “storm horns.” As we serviced these horns, we encountered many hundreds of NEW inexpensive instruments that were being donated to schools and individuals. While we had great respect for the intentions of the contributors, the questionable quality of instruments we were seeing became a genuine concern. B.A.C. stepped in by designing a line of durable instruments without compromising a limited budget. While produced to our specifications overseas, to ensure quality each instrument receives inspection, adjustments and play-testing at our facility in Kansas City by our staff of skilled craftsmen. With our roots as a well-respected repair business, we also understand the importance of having OEM replacement parts readily available. We are proud of and stand by the quality of our Apprentice Series wind instruments.

Brand new in box!

The history of B.A.C. starts right here with the eBay account presenting to you this item. The founder, Mike Corrigan, had attended the most reputable musical instrument repair school in the world in Red Wing, Minnesota, before pursuing instrument manufacturing with a small boutique trombone manufacturer in the Boston, MA area in 2000. Following the September, 11 attacks in 2001, his hours were cut back, and several employees were laid off, forcing Corrigan to turn his childhood passion for collecting antique and vintage instruments as a child into a business. This very eBay account was established in the days after his hours were cut back, and that was essentially the beginning of what has become one of the most respected companies in the business among professional musicians around the world. After relocating from New England to to Kansas City in 2004, B.A.C. Horn Doctor continued to grow the business of serving the eBay community with fine vintage and antique musical gear, as well as providing the highest quality repair and custom service for musicians around the world. In 2007, Corrigan began manufacturing his own custom brass instruments, and over the years the line has expanded today into a full line of Custom Brass instruments that are being created in Kansas City’s Historic Jazz District. The company officially split off into two separate entities, B.A.C. Horn Doctor now doing business as B.A.C. Music Center serves as Kansas City’s premier Professional Repair and service shop, and provides new and used musical instruments, rentals, etc, and B.A.C. Musical Instruments serves some of the industry’s most prominent musicians. Instruments made by B.A.C. can be heard and seen on stages backing musicians such as Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center, Bruno Mars, Beyonce’, Sir Paul McCartney, John Legend, Kool and the Gang, Steely Gang, Vulfpeck, Lucky Chops, and so many more. Following Hurricane Katrina, Corrigan brought a mobile repair trailer to New Orleans to provide free musical instrument repair to the musicians in the iconic French Quarter, and schools in the region that desperately needed assistance. Predating the advantages of social media, and not knowing anyone from the city, or having ever visited the city before, the young Corrigan had connected with a Non-Profit called ‘Renew our Music Foundation’ which later merged with ‘Sweet Home New Orleans’. This experience would ultimately lead to many friendships, and subsequent return mission trips to New Orleans where Corrigan befriended, among others, Naitive trombonist Troy Andrews, who challenged him to develop a lower cost professional instrument which would essentially inspire the instrument you are looking at here today. A variation of that instrument was developed, and through a collaboration between Corrigan, (The Horn Doctor) and funded by Troy (Trombone Shorty) and with the Mayor, (Mitch Landrieu) the three visited schools in New Orleans and donated these instruments to schools throughout the city. To this day, Corrigan has suggested that this moment was a defining moment not only for himself, but for the way B.A.C. realized it could fundamentally make a difference in the lives of musicians. Corrigan has now been making Custom Musical Instruments for over 20 years. The B.A.C. Musical Instruments Custom Shop team today, is led by shop foreman John Duda, who is a second generation American Master Musical Instrument Craftsman. His father Lou Duda worked for the great Elden Benge. Lou worked for H.N. White and F.E. Olds before that. John himself was a master bell maker for Benge, and trained bell makers for UMI after the Benge acquisition. John is the owner of Calicchio Custom Trumpet company and agreed to take the B.A.C. foreman position in part to help pass the torch of the American legacy of manufacturing to the next generation. Over the years, B.A.C. Custom’s production has been quite limited. When located in Olathe, Kansas, the production was sometimes as limited as less than a dozen instruments a year. Oftentimes during research and development of new ideas the shop would take a vintage instrument and explore ideas by ‘Custom Modifying’ using some of their own components and parts. Last year B.A.C. Musical Instruments acquired the now defunct Kanstul Musical Instruments Factory facility and relocated it to their Kansas City factory facility in Kansas City’s Historic Jazz District. B.A.C. also acquired the iconic Benge Musical Instrument brand.

- .472” Bore
- 12 1/5” Yellow Brass Bell
- Reso-Tempered Bell
- Bright Epoxy Lacquer
- B.A.C. Pro-Line Series Deluxe Case

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