[[File:Trompettes baroques.jpg|thumb|Baroque trumpets by Johann Wilhelm Haas]]{{Single source|date=September 2024}}
The '''Haas family''' was a German family of [[brass instrument]] makers. They had a factory in the city of [[Nuremberg]]. '''[[Johann Wilhelm Haas]]''' (baptized 6 Aug 1649, Nuremberg – buried 2 July 1723, Nuremberg) was the first of the family to make brass instruments. Johann was the son of two generations of guards of the city night watch who played trumpet calls as part of their duties. He most likely learned to make instruments from [[Hanns Hainlein]] (1598-1671). He achieved the title of [[master craftsman]] in 1676 and became the most well known of all the Nuremberg brass makers.<ref name="Grove" />
Both Johann Haas's son '''Wolf Wilhelm Haas''' (1681–1760) and grandson '''Ernst Johann Conrad Haas''' (1723-1792) followed him into the brass instrument making business. Wolf and Ernst Hass both signed their work with Johann Haas's name rather than using their own names. The Haas brass instruments were highly prized throughout Europe, and as a result there are many extant instruments found throughout the continent, including more than 60 trumpets, 7 horns, and 2 trombones. Some of the instruments were made by special commission and are more ornate with silver and gold as their material make-up. Museums which contain instruments made by the Haas family in their collections include the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York, the [[Bavarian National Museum]] in Munich, the [[National Music Museum]] in South Dakota, the [[Trompetenmuseum]] in Säckingen, and the [[Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin]].<ref name="Grove">{{Cite encyclopedia |author=Edward H. Tarr |date=2003|entry=Haas |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.12102}}</ref>
