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If you’ve read my other mute posts you’ll know that I use a jo ral harmon and straight. So you won’t be surprised to read that I also have a jo al tri-tone mute.<\/p>\n
However you may be surprised that this isn’t the mute that I use.<\/p>\n
The tri-tone is a good mute which comes with three grades of dampening rings (this isn’t the technical term, but they are ring shaped and they absorb sound). This gives you a physical degree of control with the sound it produces. The more rings; the increasingly dampened the sound.<\/p>\n
The problems are:<\/p>\n
– It doesn’t fit in the large bell of my Calicchio.
\n– Even when I use it with my Callet (which it does fit) I don’t need that much control over a cup mute.
\n– It creates more resistance than it’s mute brothers (harmon and straight)<\/p>\n
The mute I actually use is one that I previously thought was crap (getting to the point ). This assumption was made when I was younger and it was purely based on it’s aesthetic look supported by no practical experience.<\/p>\n
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The Humes and Berg Cup<\/u><\/p>\n
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Not too pretty but an extremely light weight and potent mute. Free blowing and stable in the trumpet bell.<\/p>\n
These are the basic short list of properties I look for in my mutes. To put it another way I look for a mute that feels like it isn’t there but sound like it is. That’s the properties of the Humes and Berg Cup!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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