For the first 25 years of his life, Jerome Callet was a deeply frustrated trumpet failure. Despite studying with the most highly respected teachers and most accepted methods of the time, the more tenaciously he worked the worse he performed.

And at the age of 25, Jerome decided to devote his life to discovering why no one could teach him how to become a fine trumpet artist. Was it even possible to develop a world class embouchure and sound? Is a good embouchure only due to a natural ability granted from especially good genes?

His first breakthrough came from studying the chops of great players via performance photos. He soon recognized that most great players were forming their embouchures in a manner very much contrary to the methods he’d been taught.

He also discovered that none of the world's greatest trumpet players, while following accepted methods, could teach their own children to play well. Jerome reasoned that even if these exceptional players fully believed what was being taught to beginners, they themselves played very differently.

From these beginnings and 50 years ensuing study, Jerome Callet started to dramatically change brass instruction. Simultaneously, he designed new mouthpieces that both aided development and greatly improved performance. And his last creations, his NY Soloist and SIMA trumpets, fulfilled the final part of his lifelong mission. With a richer, fuller, and more vibrant sound, a denser and more concentrated core, superior intonation, and an ease of performance in all registers, Jerome Callet’s Sima and NY Soloist trumpets fulfilled his final dreams. In the end, his fantastic chops, mouthpieces, and trumpets made his difficult trumpet journey a true success story now recognized worldwide.