David G. Monette (born 1956, Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American craftsman who designs and builds custom brass instruments and mouthpieces for musicians.[1][2]
Monette's experience as a trumpeter and the influence of acoustician Arthur Benade led Monette to redesign the trumpet mouthpiece with the goal of improving playability and sound quality. Since the first mouthpieces reached the market in 1985, Monette has made mouthpieces for tuba, trombone, B♭, C, D, E♭ trumpet, and A and B♭ piccolo trumpet.[2]
He has designed mouthpieces and trumpets for Dr. George Washington Shaw, Maynard Ferguson, Wynton Marsalis and Charles Schlueter, as well as tubist Chester Schmitz. Monette designed the Flumpet, a combination of a trumpet and flugelhorn, for jazz musicians Art Farmer and Mark Isham.[3][2]
Monette designed his first trumpet in 1983. A perfectionist, he has said that his vision is to create a trumpet with the "perfect sound", which, according to Monette, is a sound that "gets out of the way" of the connection between a musician and an audience.[2]
See also
edit- Air Jordan XX. Monette is credited with influencing the laser-etched design of the sneaker[4]
References
edit- ^ Koehler, Elisa (2015). A Dictionary for the Modern Trumpet Player. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 113. ISBN 9780810886582.
- ^ a b c d Vigeland, Carl (November 1999). "A New Horn". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ Gabbard, Krin (2008). Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture. Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571211999.
- ^ La Puma, Joe (2020). Complex Presents: Sneaker of the Year The Best Since '85. Complex Media. ISBN 9781683359395.
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