Michael Rath Trombones

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Michael Rath Trombones

Michael Rath R9DST bass trombone
Industry	Musical instrument manufacturing
Founded	1996
Founder	Michael Rath
Headquarters	Honley, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Area served	North America, South America, Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan
Products	tenor, bass, contrabass, alto trombones and accessories
Number of employees	12
Website	rathtrombones.com

Michael Rath Trombones is a British manufacturer of retail and custom hand-made trombones. Rath offers artist-quality and student instruments in its line of tenor, bass, contrabass and alto trombones. Rath Trombones was founded in 1996 by instrument technician Michael Rath, and is Britain's only trombone manufacturer.^[1] Rath's 12 craftspeople create as many as 500 trombones per year, exporting instruments through 25 distributors in North and South America, Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan.