In the Vincent Bach family, the VBS-1 model is the little sister of the well known related Stradivarius Series. The engineers have actually designed a seminal Bach at a reasonable price, without watering down the key features that have made Bach the market leading brand famous worldwide. The dark cut is the two piece bell which has permitted to lower production costs drastically. But this instrument is still a hard core Bach, made in Elkart (Indiana, USA), home of the legendary Stradivarius trumpets.