How to design YOUR OWN Trumpet Mouthpieces with Vennture 

Vincent Bach and Renold Schilke would be amazed at just how far mouthpiece design and machining have evolved in the past 100 years. Just the ability to hold such tight tolerances is incredible. Jon many thanks for your great videos! 🎺👍

I hope Doug links this on his site! It's really cool to see the process from start to finish. I recently had a vintage cornet mouthpiece replicated by Vennture. It saved my playing... I've been using this mouthpiece for 17 years, and objectively, it's probably a terrible mouthpiece, but it just works really well for me! But I upgraded to a modern horn, and my original MP shank didn't fit. The Vennture copy is actually better than the original, on both my modern horn, and my vintage one (due to some tweaks, but also just surface finish).

This is next level awesome. Keep it up Jon

Very impressive video,great work, and loved his final sound!!!👍

Thanks! Great videos! Super informative!

This is BY FAR my favorite of your videos, no offense to your others, I'm just a gear head and this is the COOLEST!

Wow, super cool to see this! I’ve always felt similar to you - I have a really hard time playing shallower mouthpieces and have really struggled to find a good “commercial” mouthpiece. Playing a stork 2c for Bb and C (different throat/Backbore for C)... might have to look into getting something similar made 🤓

wow this seems awesome I think I'll get one made

Love this!

When I played Monette trumpets Dave made me a lead mouthpiece to accommodate my big lips. He did the same one for Scotty Barnhart at around the same time as we both played the same rim. It was like a 1C but with a flatter bottom and tighter backbone. The flatter bottom made it effectively shallower to help with the compression. I don't have it now as I changed instruments after my divorce! I went to smaller rims before mashing my lips in an accident so I am back on much bigger mouthpieces again. The missing link is something with more compression for when I need it.

This is an incredible concept!

Mind officially blown ... wow! Amazed at the technology available these days!

Awesome video!

What a time to be alive!

Another superb trumpet nerd video! You have mentioned before that you play with a dry embouchure - how about a discussion of the pros and cons of wet vs dry?

Wow that was super cool… I really want to try this!!

More about the LipStick test please ;) Awesome video and what a fantastic mouthpiece making process!

I really appreciate the content you make and how you present it. Would you ever consider making videos on the Stork brand? Also, would you ever make a video on what to expect/do when visiting a shop/factory for a consultation? Thanks again or the great informative content!

Look into the Bach Artisan Series Mouthpiece.i ordered a 1 C . I like a mellow sound. They went back to the very old days of Bach’s designs . The rim doesn’t have that bite and is more comfortable.

The obvious question - what was your final cost? This video reminds me of a true story about Maynard as told by one of the musicians in Maynard's trumpet section. Maynard's trumpet, for whatever reason, was transported separately to a gig and arrived just before the gig was about to start. However, it arrived WITHOUT his mouthpiece. Upon discovering this, Maynard called out to the trumpet players asking if anyone had an extra mouthpiece. Someone tossed him a trumpet mouthpiece which was totally different from Maynard's normal one. Maynard then played the entire gig with the substitute mouthpiece and sounded just as brilliant and powerful as always with his usual incredible range. That's how it's done!

Great video! Was that the Mambo solo from West Side Story? Very nice!

So, how long will it be before we can design and lathe pieces at neighborhood shops? Cool vid!

I was not able to get the VennCAD software to work on Linux so far, but it looks pretty cool and is a great idea. Nice video. Some of the background music was way too loud though.

Super cool especially since I play a B 1 1/2C Rim Screwed onto a 1 1/4C Cup in a 3 inch shank that I'm dying to have reproduced. I'd love to know what the cost of the prototypes and final mouthpieces are. I have looked up the cost of a mouthpiece but it didn't mention prototypes. Thanks for any info you can share as well as the video. Also, how fast did they get your mouthpiece back to you? Thanks.

I just ordered a second hand mouthpiece with a 27.4mm rim, a 17mm cup diameter, and a 3.6mm bore. I normally play in orchestra and I'm not too experienced in mouthpiece finding. I'm looking a collosal sound. Do you think I made the right choice?

What makes a pops mouthpiece a pops mouthpiece? How does it differentiate from the others besides the cup change

I’m giving up on mouthpieces !

cool video! have you tried the Harrelson 5mm system?

What Is Wider Inner Diameter Than Bach 1C?

Nice videos ! Thank you. Some brands proposes raw brass mouthpiece (Donat in France for exemple). I saw taht you got raw brass mouthpieces from Vennture to make your decision. Do you think it is a sustainable choice ? Doesn't it give a bad smell/taste ?

Awesome!!! Only backbores are available?????

Made by Joseph Klier? Nice tone you have. I'm more chainsaw. lol.

I was wondering what lipstick you're using!

Do they do this for other brass instruments?

How much did this whole project cost? And did you have to pay for the prototypes? Do you get to keep the prototypes?

PLease drop the f'n music!! It's hard enough to cencontrate (HAHA!!)

I just get more confused

I love the fact that someone, I don't know who is doing this work, had the passion to create a probing system and software to duplicate and modify existing mouthpiece designs. What is missing? Perspective in understanding how each change will affect the player's ability to perform. That CMM (scan) process is prone to deflection and error that will give you an inaccurate starting point. This is why real CMM systems cost $50-200k, because they are accurate. And you did not scan the finished mouthpiece on the CMM to verify accuracy? Where's the quality control in your production method? At $225 each, every new mouthpiece is just one variation of your original. To achieve the variations my average clients use regularly, you would need at least 8 of these mouthpieces at $1800? After years of making mouthpieces on manual lathes, I started making mouthpieces with a Mitutoyo CMM scan method and high end CNC lathe in 2004. Since then, I have developed a fully modular system that is far more accurate and flexible than the original. Now you can choose any rim shape+diameter, any cup shape+diameter+depth, any shape throat+diameter and the same for the backbore and body. For the price of 2 of the mouthpieces in this video, you could be playing something that is far more efficient, more accurate, and with up to 12 configurations. With all this said, I think the person behind these Vennture mouthpieces is awesome! He is at the beginning of what could be a very long journey. One that many of the best mouthpiece makers have taken, and if we're lucky, are still living, learning, and creating a better process. I was doing basically the exact same process when I made the transition from manual lathe work to CNC almost 20 years ago. Great job and I hope to meet you someday!