St. Louis Music and Warwick Music Group have announced that the Hytech pTrumpet has won NAMM’s “Best Teaching Tool for Intermediate Students” in the annual School Band & Orchestra “Best Tools for Schools Awards” (in SBO, MMR’s sister magazine).
The annual SBO Awards are judged by an independent panel of expert music educators who tour NAMM – which this year attracted more than 115,000 music trade visitors – secretly reviewing products in several different categories.
Chris Fower, director of creativity and Innovation at Warwick Music Group, said: “It sounds like a simple idea to take the best of plastic and metal and produce an outstanding student trumpet, yet beneath that ambition lay a host of extraordinary musical, technical and manufacturing challenges. I’m so proud and delighted that the hard work of our amazing development team has not only overcome those challenges but produced a musical instrument which benefits the development of all students starting their trumpet playing journeys.
Rich Breske, director of U.S. marketing, said: “We’re honored to be recognized by music educators as an exciting new entry into the band and orchestra discussion. pTrumpet hyTech provides terrific accessibility to more students as it is incredibly musical, durable and affordable. The combination of great quality sound and valve action, along with the durability of the carefully designed gold plastic body makes this trumpet preferable, and virtually indistinguishable, in the intermediate/beginner band situation.”
