[Trombone-l] WARM-UP WITH MUTE?

[John Monroe]

Dear All,

At the last ITF my buddy Billy Robinson came upon the "Best Brass"  
mute for tenor and bass bones sold at slidebone.com.  I bought one on  
his recommendation and use it often.  It's pricey but has several big  
advantages:

1.  It's light
2.  It's got good frequency response from pedal tones through double F.
3.  It's a tiny bit (a few dB) louder than the SIlent Brass, and a  
LOT less bulky.
4.  It protrudes from your bell about a half-inch, thus providing  
possible travel protection similar to the styrofoam cone suggested by  
Doug Yeo.  You can practice in a hotel room with it without  
disturbing the neighbors.
5.  It allows you to warm up in a room with other members of your  
group without drowning out the conversation of the others.  For an  
amateur player like me, who plays a lot of brass chamber music, this  
is a very nice benefit.  It lets warmup and socializing go on  
simultaneously!

You can check it out and buy it at <<  http://www.slidebone.com/ 
mutes.html  >>

John Monroe

On Mar 5, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Chris Tune wrote:

> Also, I'd point out that "necessary" can come up unexpectedly.   If  
> you are
> travelling on a gig or clinic, or so forth, and you find there is  
> no place
> which is sound proofed for you to warm up, you may now need to  
> consider a
> practice mute.  In doing gigs in Vegas, it always seems I'm time  
> constrained
> such that late night is the only likely practice time.  I'll therefore
> practice in the hotel room and I don't want to bug the neighbors  
> through the
> all-too-thin walls.   Thus "Silent Brass" time. . .gets so I don't  
> have to
> think twice about this now.
>
> I make it a point to always have the Yamaha Silent Brass with me  
> (it lives
> with all the other mutes in my mute bag).  An added plus would be  
> to carry
> the patch cords needed to plug this together with some audio source  
> with
> MMO-type audio (e.g. Aebersolds. . .piano accomp parts on recording).
>
> Note also, that you can partly improve the sound of this system by  
> attaching
> a top quality in-ear monitor, like the Ultimate Ears units.  These are
> expensive, but they produce much better bass response and generally  
> better
> audio quality than the ear buds provided by Yamaha.  Doesn't do  
> anything
> though, about the inadequate reverb on the Yam unit.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Denton Thomas" <dentonlt at usa.net>
> To: <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] WARM-UP WITH MUTE?
>
>
>> I've decided it does funny things with my sound, especially if  
>> it's the
>> first thing of the day.
>>
>> Only when necessary.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Denton
>>
>> -- 
>> DentonLT at usa.net / dentonlt.com
>> +1.512.680.7395
>>
>>
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