Instruments – New Developments and Custom Designs

In co-operation with the Thein Brothers, Matthias Höfs has continuously developed the quality of existing instruments and has additionally helped to create new and innovative types of instruments. Whether it is with an orchestra, with an ensemble or as a soloist – the trumpeter has to regard a great variety of requirements. Hence, his tool should be just as versatile as it should be able to realize an interpretation that lives up to the music. During his more than twenty years of co-operation and close friendship with the Thein Brothers, a variety of special and unique instruments were built. A few even specifically designed for a single work of music. An example is the wooden trumpet for “Tristan und Isolde”. Other instruments such as the “Deutsche” B flat trumpet or the MH-One were designed as “all-rounders” and have reached a high level of perfection due to their many years of experiments and miniscule adaptions.