Custom mouthpiece made for San Francisco trumpet player and band leader John Capobianco.

After graduating from high school in the mid-70's, John attended Cal State S.F. and the College of San Mateo, and took private study with legends like Joe Alessi, Chet Baker, Clark Terry, and Dizzy Gillespie among others.

Mr. Capobianco has been featured lead trumpet and soloist with the bands of Russ Morgan, Joe Henderson, Louie Bellson, and has appeared in the live stage productions Stardust and Hoagy. John leads his own jazz ensembles of various sizes, including big bands and combos - and his groups appear at a variety of Bay Area venues, including the San Francisco Opera, Candlestick Park, Yoshi's in Oakland, the San Francisco Jazz Festival and the San Jose Jazz Festival. Currently, John is lead trumpet for the Harry James Orchestra.

John Capobianco has long been involved in jazz education in the Bay Area, including several years with the Stanford Jazz Workshop. John has also taught at Jazz Camp West and the University of the Pacific, and also gives private instruction in trumpet.

A few years ago, John imagined a mouthpiece based off the Marcinkiewicz Pro-Line mouthpiece and a Schilke 15A cup he was fond of.

From the internet:

"The Pro-Line Concert Hall Series was designed for the player whose needs are not met with other mouthpieces. These mouthpieces offer enhanced projection and even timbre at all dynamics with the same great intonation throughout all registers that Marcinkiewicz mouthpieces are famous for. The unique mouthpiece exterior design offers optimal nodal enhancement by placing integral vibration dampers in specific, calculated areas. The net result is a mouthpiece that gives an extremely stable center of pitch, allows unprecedented dynamic levels without distortion and provides rich, dark symphonic sound without the additional mass of a conventional heavy wall mouthpiece."

Specs:

• 0.675" Inner diameter cup, similar to the Schilke 15 rim
• Shallow cup, like Schilke "A"
• # 28 Throat
• Unique "Pro-Line" Concert Hall blank - about 116 g / 4.1 oz.

What an unexpectedly fabulous mouthpiece! Dark core, but will light up a room if necessary.

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Condition is "New". Selling for private party. Shipped with USPS First Class. International shipping available.

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