[Dixielandjazz] Trumpet mutes

[Anton Crouch]

Hello all

Bill covered comprehensively the matter of trumpet mutes in jazz and, since
Luis' original post didn't limit the question to jazz, we can go further.

New Grove 2 notes that, for funerals, trumpets were muted in the early 16th
century. There is a drawing of an early mute in Mersenne's "Harmonie
universelle" of 1636.

A question for our horn players - do you (and if so, how) compensate for
the rise in pitch produced by most mutes?

All the best
Anton