Replica of Roy Hargrove's mouthpiece

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Too bad this is so expensive. If a company like Legends made this for less, it would be a big seller.

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SatchmoGillespie · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:58 pm Post subject:

If it was made by Kanstul, then Jim New probably has the scan for it. Contact him and he could make it for half of that.
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Goby · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Jun 2017 Posts: 648

Does the description not say that it's a copy of a Dimitri Donat mouthpiece? Just go straight to the source and get one from Donat. His pieces are fantastic.

Jaw04 · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:40 pm Post subject:

So this is the replica of the mouthpiece he played for a couple years towards the end of his career, when his playing was in great decline. He did a lot of his most sublime playing on a Bach 3C and a Monette B6. Not that the mouthpiece has much to do with that, just pointing that out.

joshlawrencejazz · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:45 am Post subject:

420? Okay...

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kehaulani · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:18 am Post subject:

I played woodwinds for abut twenty years (Master degree minor in WW Performance), and $400.0 is not unusual for a mpc.. Brass players have been lucky for years. If paying $400.00 for great mpc means that your mpc safari has come to an end, (which can get into the thousands), it's worth it.
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hackney_wick · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:03 am Post subject:

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Brent · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:33 am Post subject: RH

Hello:

I reached out to Mr. Donat, who told me this is his 165D2 model.

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Nonprokingdom · Regular Member Joined: 18 Nov 2021 Posts: 32

[quote="kehaulani"]I played woodwinds for abut twenty years (Master degree minor in WW Performance), and $400.0 is not unusual for a mpc.. Brass players have been lucky for years. If paying $400.00 for great mpc means that your mpc safari has come to an end, (which can get into the thousands), it's worth it.[/quote]

A few interesting points. However, this is a trumpet forum and a typical trumpet mouthpiece costs no where near $400. A violin bow can cost 5 to 6 figures, irrelevant, would you agree?

Why pay $400 when you can buy the exact same piece for less than half from Donat? You seem to enjoy high cost items just for the sake of paying a lot of money.

kehaulani · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:24 am Post subject:

My point is just that I think we brass players have been lucky. And if you read all the technical/acoustical information of TH about how particular parameters of trumpet mouthpiece design is, it's no less than that of a sax mouthpiece.
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ALETRUMPET · Regular Member Joined: 30 Jun 2022 Posts: 79

Contacted Donat who told me Roy was playing a 168D. His ideas are confused.
And anyway Roy played the best things with a common and banal Bach 3C.

annvill · Veteran Member Joined: 16 Oct 2020 Posts: 155

It remains to be known what mouthpiece Roy played. The 168D2 does not exist and nothing is known, depth etc. The 168D is not clear if it is the same played by Roy. So if I call Donat and ask him for a replica of Roy's mouthpiece, what does he sell me?