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I caught a short mention of a new Williams-inspired Shires model small bore at the end of this video



Can’t find much more info about it, anyone have a chance to play one?

Would be interested to hear if anyone got to check it out.

https://www.seshires.com/tbsvla

Some more info is out

Could be cool but in my experience most instruments that are "inspired" based instruments are in name only. It definitely sounds good for marketing purposes.

I played it at the ITF in Canada. It's at least similar but I didn't do a direct comparison to my Williams.

Didn’t their regular offering draw inspiration from the Williams?

Spent a little bit of time on this horn at NAMM today. Granted it is loud in the convention but I wasn’t much impressed. It didn’t have the heft and the color of the old Williams I used to own. To me it was more like a Kanstul, pretty light. It was well balanced I felt. It was kind of like the smaller cousin of the Yamaha 895EN (an all yellow brass horn). Me and Charlie Morillas ended up going back and forth on the horns and both agreed the Marshall Gilkes next to it felt, played, and sounded way better.

MalecHeermans wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 2:35 pm Didn’t their regular offering draw inspiration from the Williams?

Yes, Steve confirmed this on a podcast, iirc.