{"id":179,"date":"2008-03-02T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T12:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/2008\/03\/02\/jo-ral-harmon-mute\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T20:52:06","slug":"jo-ral-harmon-mute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/jo-ral-harmon-mute\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo-Ral Harmon Mute Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Americans will know this as the Jo-Ral Bubble Mute)<\/font><\/p>\n

In my opinion, the best harmon mute there is.<\/font><\/p>\n

It keeps its tuning with a fantastic sound whereas other mutes usually compramise in one or both these areas. The copper mute in particular has a darker and rich sound. You’ll also find that most harmon mutes have a quiet tone that restrict your air-flow when playing. This is not the case with the Jo-Ral harmon mute as they are exceptionally free blowing and generate a suprisingly big sound.<\/font><\/p>\n

These factors make them ideally suited for soling with in a small band or in a recital (especially when used with a mic.).<\/font><\/p>\n

The draw back to this mute is:<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s Size<\/u><\/font><\/p>\n

If your trumpet has a larger bell the mute may not fit properly and have to be held in by hand. These larger bell trumpets include Caliccho’s – Ultra Heavy Weight in particular – and Monette’s.<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s Weight (copper mute)<\/em><\/u><\/font><\/p>\n

The copper mute is so heavy there is always the feeling it will fall out whilst playing.<\/font><\/p>\n

Eddie Severn once told me that he stopped using the copper mutes because he was playing at a wedding for his friend when his mute fell out in the church and bounced down the stone steps he was standing on. It wasn’t a good moment.<\/font><\/p>\n

I have both these problems but since it fits well enough to get a great sound I hold the harmon mute whilst I play and therefore don’t need to worry bout it falling. So despite these problems I still consider it the best harmon mute around.<\/font><\/p>\n

If you are not so keen on the idea of holding the mute whilst you play there is an aluminium version. For me the aluminium body is still a great mute but the darker sound is sacrificed for the lighter weight.<\/font><\/p>\n

For more information go to www.jo-ral.com<\/a> and have a look around Google<\/a> for more reviews.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Americans will know this as the Jo-Ral Bubble Mute) In my opinion, the best harmon mute there is. It keeps its tuning with a fantastic sound whereas other mutes usually compramise in one or both these areas. The copper mute…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[239,197,199,238,196,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}