Irvin Mayfield Jr. plays the Elysian Trumpet

David Monette says the Elysian Trumpet is the fanciest horn ever to emerge from his Portland shop. Grammy-
nominated trumpeter Irvin Mayfield Jr. founded the nonprofit New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in 2002 and he intends to take orchestra and horn on the road worldwide for concerts in memory of Katrina victims, one of whom was his father and first trumpet teacher, Irvin Mayfield Sr.

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[WhatTheFlyinFudge]

Call the Waambulance.

A trumpet's sheet bracing is not supposed to be able to slice bread.  His regular horns are beautiful, but his ruby encrusted, graffiti-laced presentation horns are, for lack of a better term "faggy".

Some of are just purists. I look at this horn, and I feel like someone raped it.

[vietrumpet123]

This horn was dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Anyone who is still sane would agree that this horn, no matter how expensive, was not equivalent to the cost of life that Katrina caused, but hell it was a start. And it was much more then you can ever do. So STOP HATING!

[Andy Terry]

that is the single best looking trumpet i've ever seen =D i wonder what the depth and bore of the mouthpiece is.

[broadcastappliance]

A trumpet worthy of the great player blowing it!

[Luke Bonner]

there's a video somewhere of irvan mayfield saying he wants the horn to be insured for $1,000,000 but i'm sure we would agree that it's priceless.

[dubbactrumpet]

No kidding...I had a 149XL but sold it recently...I want the Prana 1 or 3, but even that one in raw brass is almost 10k. It's pretty insane. I got to play a friend's Prana 1 C, and it was ridiculous.

[scrmtrumpet]

Man, if you're right then the prices have gone up like crazy. I know all about the process that it takes to make one of the presentation instruments. I'm pretty familiar with Monette horns but apparently I haven't checked the prices in a while haha

[dubbactrumpet]

His AJNA II line runs around that area. This is a presentation horn that takes about 1000-1500 man-hours to complete, plus Tami Dean does all the engraving of the pictures and things on the presentation horns. Even Wynton's presentation horn is estimated at about 200-300k.

[scrmtrumpet]

1.2 Million?

last price quote I heard for one was about $30,000-$35,000

[promarky]

irvin mayfield is fuckin dumb