"For the past 50 years, I have used my lips
and ears as a brass laboratory. It was a great struggle to discover and fully
test the ideas I have been working on for these 5 decades. I vowed if I could
achieve this dream of mine I would share it with all brass players."
-
Jerome Callet
Jerome
Callet, for the first 25 years of his life, was a frustrated trumpet failure.
The more avidly he sought to develop his embouchure, using the best teachers and
most accepted methods of the time, the worse he performed.
In utter frustration, he decided to
devote his life to finding out why no one could teach him how to develop an
advanced embouchure and great sound, and indeed, whether it was even possible to
develop a superior embouchure and world class sound. Perhaps, he thought, one
has a good embouchure as a result of natural capability, body development, etc.
His first assault on the problem was to
study the chops of great players in photos of these artists while they were
performing. He noticed that most of the great players were positioning their
chops on the mouthpiece in direct contradiction to all the accepted embouchure
methods!
More amazingly, he found that none of
the world's greatest trumpet players could teach their own children to play!
The reason for this is that while they believed what was being taught to
beginners was correct, they themselves played differently. As a result, probably
because they could not describe the "feel" that a proper embouchure gives, none
of these artists ever had a child who amounted to anything special as a
performer!
From this beginning and after 50 years
of continued research, Jerome Callet has become one of the most sought after
embouchure specialists in the world. He has continued to advance the art of
brass instruction while simultaneously developing the finest mouthpieces to aid
development and greatly improve performance. His newest effort, the SIMA
trumpet, fulfills the final part of his lifelong mission. With a richer, fuller,
and more vibrant sound, a dense and concentrated core, clearly superior
intonation, and an ease of performance in all registers, the SIMA is the new
standard in trumpet performance!
On left,
Jerry plays a double pedal C (click to enlarge)
On right,
Jerry plays a double high C (click to enlarge)
1953
- began a 16 year apprenticeship with Elden Benge followed by 6 years
with Dominick
Calicchio.
1970 - developed the revolutionary
embouchure techniques that took him from a very weak high C to a useable range
of double pedal C to double high C with great ease, immense sound, and amazing
power.
1971 - published Trumpet Yoga,
a "scientific breakthrough" in embouchure development. This method is still used
with great success by players around the world.
1972 - manufactured the first of his
more than 25,000 Callet Custom mouthpieces.
1973 - designed and released the first
of his more than 5,000 Callet Custom trumpets.
1987 - published Superchops,
a step forward in his teaching method that made his advanced instruction more
accessible than ever.
2002 - published Trumpet Secrets,
The Secrets of the Tongue-Controlled Embouchure, a new revolution in
brass instruction that revealed his time-tested secrets to developing superior
range, power, and endurance.
2007 - published Master Superchops, a 2
DVD set that demonstrates his teachings in greater detail than ever before.
Master Superchops DVD
2007 - Released his new mouthpiece
design, the Superchops, incorporating all the secrets gained from his previous
25,000 highly successful mouthpieces. Already considered by hundreds of
professionals around the world as the standard in mouthpiece design.
Superchops
Mouthpiece
2007 - Completed a 15 year study of
classic trumpets, the most detailed analysis ever performed. Purchased, played,
dissected, and measured more than 275 of the finest trumpets ever made including
models from every renowned maker from around the world.
2008 - unveils the Callet SIMA, a
superior trumpet in every sense of the word!
The SIMA
Callet Trumpets
