The Good Design Award (Host: Japan Institute of Design Promotion), established in 1957 as Japan's sole comprehensive design evaluation/recommendation movement, today has participants from many domestic and international companies and groups. In particular, the Good Design Gold Award is awarded to designs that have been judged to be “the most distinguished in the current year by the Good Design Award Judging Committee from a comprehensive perspective such as how they deal with social issues, what they suggest for the future and how high a degree of perfection they reach.” This year, out of 3,400 entries, 20 won the Good Design Gold Award, and Yamaha's SILENT Brass™ (SB3X/SB5X/SB7X) was honored as one of them.