Founded in 1991 by musician and educator Fred Hoey, San Antonio, Texas-based Antigua Winds has been offering top-of-the-line brass and woodwind instruments at highly competitive prices, specializing in professional and student instruments. From its early beginnings as a saxophone manufacturer, Antigua Winds now also offers saxophones, clarinets, oboes, flutes, piccolos, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, and the revolutionary Antigua VOSI line for first-time students. High quality accessories such as care kits, straps, cases, and mutes are also available. Antigua Winds products are distributed to more than 60 countries, especially designed to fit the different needs of its clientele.
Production and quality standards are of prime importance for Antigua Winds, ensuring that each instrument is hand inspected, fine-tuned, and adjusted as needed before shipping to the customer. Attesting to its performance are numerous musicians from various parts of the world, such as Marcus Anderson, Steve Clarke, Eric Demmer, Ian Fullwood, Phil French, Nelson Garcia, Dante Lewis, Cheng-Yu Lee, Ting-Quan Lu, Lamar Ownens, the Russian Saxophone Quartet, and the Seoul Saxophone Quartet, among many others.
