Brass instruments like the trumpet and the trombone usually play open meaning that their bell is wide open but they can also play with a mute.

Common mutes like the straight mute, the plunger mute and the Harmon mute go over the bell of the horn and affect the sound since that's the only place where the sound

comes out.

Woodwinds like the saxophone have too many holes to work with a mute, which is too bad, but

hey, you can't have everything. And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, a Podcasts, about Music. I am your host Kirk Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you've

joined me to talk about music played on cup mutes and music played on bucket

mutes and sometimes music played on every type of mute there is. We've got a

very strong song played by a trumpet player who was famous for his use of mutes, and I'm excited to get into it.

So find a comfortable place to sit, turn up the volume, and enjoy the show.

I really have always kind of been a little bit envious

so the way that brass players get to use mutes,

partly because mutes are fun and they seem like a fun way to change up your sound but also because of the

existence of something called silent brass which is a system that is basically a mute that you can

put in the end of you know a trumpet or a trombone only it has a microphone in it and you can

then plug in headphones and hear yourself playing which is great for practicing in an

apartment building somewhere where you're going to be worried about the sound

that you're making I was always so envious of that,

especially when I was practicing a whole lot of saxophone, you know, back in the day,

just because I was worried that I was annoying people with my saxophone playing and there is just no way to mute a saxophone

the sound is coming out of all these tone holes along the side of the instrument

same thing is true for a clarinet or a flute or any woodwind instrument you just can't

mute it in the same way and I always wish that I could have silent sacks, but it just doesn't exist.

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