August - 2013

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30th Anniversary Letter, from David Monette

30th Anniversary Letter, from David Monette

I am excited to be celebrating our 30th year making Monette trumpets! We are making the best trumpets and mouthpieces we have ever made... better than I ever dreamed we could produce! I hope this 30th ANNIVERSARY NEWSLETTER gives you an idea of how much we enjoy making these outrageous new instruments and mouthpieces. Here is a quick rundown of some of what's new since our last internet newsletter was posted two years ago. Our new, entry level SILVER SERIES PRODUCTION MOUTHPI

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Introducing our exciting new 30th Anniversary instruments

Introducing our exciting new 30th Anniversary instruments

Dave Monette decided to celebrate the company's 30th anniversary by pulling out all the stops. We were just getting around to introducing our next generation PRANA STC instruments, featured in our latest on-line NEWSLETTER, when his next brainstorm in design materialized! These new 30th anniversary instruments use a new, improved valve section, new style pistons, plus a new leadpipe and bell design that combine to help players produce the most exciting, ringing, present sound

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Mouthpiece Selection Guide

Mouthpiece Selection Guide

Why play a Monette Mouthpiece? Our Constant Pitch Center mouthpieces are designed to play with consistent timbre, resistance and intonation in every register and at any dynamic level. Conventional mouthpieces compress the octaves, making the upper register flat and the low register sharp. They also change pitch when changing dynamic levels. This is undesirable as it forces the player to compensate unnaturally with their body simply to play in-tune When you see a trumpet playe

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Our New, Production Silver Mouthpieces

Our New, Production Silver Mouthpieces

Perfect for Students Works on Any Key of Horn Silver Plated Special Introductory Price In Stock for the Holidays Available Direct from Us and from Dealers It's been just over a year since we introduced our new silver plated MONETTE 6 mouthpiece, and the response has been terrific! In fact it's been so popular that we have expanded this new line of mouthpieces into our four most popular sizes! These silver plated production mouthpieces are the most economical mouthpieces we ha

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Terence has a new RAJA!

Terence has a new RAJA!

When we asked Terence what he wanted in his new RAJA, he just said, "You know...!" We took this to mean that he wanted the best full weight sheet-braced RAJA we have ever made... one that plays and sounds amazing. It took us five months to build Terence's new trumpet, and we could not be happier with how it turned out. It is a full weight, state-of-the-art, threaded integral mouthpiece RAJA - the first of its kind. We matched the weight of his previous RAJA and personalized t

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New PRANA STC Flugelhorn

New PRANA STC Flugelhorn

Over a year ago we got a call from Wynton's office asking if we had a flugelhorn he could use for a new piece he had written for the LCJO that had a short flugel double for the trumpet section. We had not made a flugelhorn since we made just two as prototypes back in the late 1980's. Then in 1989 Art Farmer inspired the first FLUMPET, which quickly caught on with both jazz and classical players we work with. So the success of the Flumpet effectively put a 20 plus year hold on

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Introducing our new STC Bb trumpets!

Introducing our new STC Bb trumpets!

Wynton Marsalis took delivery of our first P3-STC Bb over three years ago, and since then we've introduced new, re-proportioned "STC" versions of each weight and model of PRANA Bb we make. These new STC models are completely re-designed with a physical layout that makes the horn more comfortable to hold and easier to hear - both for the player behind the instrument and for the audience. The sound is livelier, the upper register is even easier, and the response is faster and a

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New 30th Anniversary RAJA III STC C Trumpet

New 30th Anniversary RAJA III STC C Trumpet

This outrageous new C trumpet was built for our friend Matt Sonneborn, who ordered it simply by asking for the best large bell medium weight C trumpet we have ever made! This trumpet is incredibly easy to play - particularly for players used to playing large-bell Monette instruments. It has the same proportions as Charlie Schlueter's decorated SAMADHI C trumpet and Manny Laureano's new XLT lightweight PRANA C. Once Manny's new C trumpet was finished and the design proven unde

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Manny Laureano's new 30th Anniversary PRANA XLT-STC C Trumpet

Manny Laureano's new 30th Anniversary PRANA XLT-STC C Trumpet

This is an all-new Monette C trumpet - and when we say all-new, we really mean ALL-NEW! It is a completely new design that is easier to hold, easier to hear both up close and at a distance, and in general more fun to play than any lightweight C trumpet we have ever made! Ghost tones ring out from this very unique instrument thanks to an all-new bell fabrication technique, the new mandrel 8 leadpipe designed just for this instrument, and a re-proportioned new tuning slide. Eve

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Introducing the RAJNA!

Introducing the RAJNA!

Our clients had been asking for a RAJA in this weight for twenty years! The RAJNA is an updated, threaded integral mouthpiece version of our popular AJNA trumpet. What better name for this new threaded integral mouthpiece version of this instrument than combining the words RAJA and AJNA into RAJNA! The RAJNA is an all-new design, with the same general proportions and layout of our new PRANA STC Bb trumpets and Terence's new full weight RAJA. The layout, proportions, sheet bra

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