Cleavage and music, funny combination, no? Think again ! This is inseparable for Atelier Donat. A family affair, mouthpieces and wind instruments. Come closer, Dimitri tells us his story.

The beginning of a long story

“It all started with my grandfather. He got into bar turning in Mont-Saxonnex at the time, out of necessity. The company has grown over time and specializes in aeronautics and small series. I created within this company the first mouthpieces and to allow this product to fully exist, I separated from this company and I recreated an entirely dedicated entity with the help of my cousin Frédéric ANTHOINE in Magland and have been for a year and a half now. »

love of work

“I am the happiest in the world! I have the chance to do a job that I love. I wake up with joy and butterflies in my stomach and when I have a new order it's like a Christmas present! My two passions are complementary, one does not go without the other and I will be unhappy without them. »

More than a passion, it's a way of life

“I have two skills in life, bar turning and music. I combined them in a profession that is quite rare in France, the production of mouthpieces for trumpets but also for trombones and all the instruments of the brass family. In France, I'm the only one who exports abroad and who really has a wide range. It's a niche market, in the world there are few people who produce mouthpieces.

My parents paid for music lessons for me and at the same time I started working in bar turning. One day, a person who wanted to make his own mouthpieces asked me to create the prototypes. This is how mouthpieces were born in 2009.
Life sometimes sends us signs and we have to know how to capture them! »

Travail sur une machine de décolletage
Credits LaboN3

Not chauvinistic but...

“Our region is the most beautiful place on Earth. There is an incredible energy and dynamism in the valley, a pulse, life what! I couldn't do my job anywhere else. »

But who can buy a mouthpiece?

" Everybody ! A gift, a need, a desire, everyone can get them, from the neophyte to the confirmed. Mouthpieces are made with love, it's the main ingredient in the making! »

Plenitude within his “reach”

“Music is meditation, it's internalizing oneself, emptying oneself and making each note one's friends, because in a note of music one finds all one's joy and happiness! »