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Recent Innovations in Stop Mutes, and Notes on Stopping on the B-flat and High F Sides

PUBLISHED: November 12, 2009, John Ericson
woodstop

New products are always of interest at Horn Matters. Recently I heard of a new type of stop mute made of wood, the Woodstop, and Ion Balu has also introduced a new stop mute with a unique bell design. Both are very innovative designs about which we have not yet posted. Stop Mutes in General [...]

Mute your Wagner tuba

PUBLISHED: May 11, 2009, John Ericson
Wagner tuba mute

Several works call for muted Wagner tuba, particularly by Strauss and Schoenberg. A horn mute will not work and really mutes for any other brass instrument won’t work. They traditionally have been very nearly custom made for a particular set of instruments. If you need one in a pinch what will you do? Last year [...]

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Brass players, Ion Balu, Wagner, Wagner tuba

A Tunable Horn Mute FAQ

PUBLISHED: September 23, 2008, John Ericson

While this topic came up in a sectional last week, it is actually a topic I have meant to post on for quite some time, that of tunable mutes. Why use a tunable mute? Better quality horn mutes are always tunable, a feature not seen on the mutes of other brass instruments. Why this is [...]

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Ion Balu, Mutes & muting

Keep a Mute in Your Car

PUBLISHED: May 15, 2008, John Ericson

Since the time I played in The Nashville Symphony I have kept a mute in the back of the car. The idea is that if you forget to bring your better mutes you will always have a mute of some sort to get by with in a pinch. Yesterday I made use of the car mute, [...]

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