[Trombone-l] Mutes

[Wayne Dyess]

Speaking of this...  our doctor bone man in our big band came up with  
the idea of using a baseball bat athletic type bag.  It's great and  
not only holds a bucket, a straight, a cup, a plunger and a practice  
(silent type) mute, but it also allows one to carry yer trombone  
stand in your mute bag.

He got his for under $10 at Academy.  Mine was around $17.  I don't  
like to shop.

:-)

Wayne



On Feb 29, 2008, at 8:31 PM, bjmchaffie at aol.com wrote:

> Recently in the past month or so there was considerable discussion  
> over
> different mute indications on the music ...
>
> One of the notes indicated something like a bag use for mute.
>
> If any of you watched the NY Phil play in Pyonyang on the tape on PBS
> you would have seen the flannel type bag used by the second trombone
> player ... as a mute.


Wayne Dyess
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