[Dixielandjazz] Trumpet mutes

[Don Ingle]

Anton asked how horn players compensate for change of pitch when a mute is
inserted.

Don Ingle replied:

It is through breath control automatically compensating, aided by lip
control. The ear is the controlling factor, and when a mute is inserted the
ear takes over to make it happens without having to think about it.
As my old teacher/mentor Red Nichols often said...
"Simplicity is the essence of good taste." Hope this answer is simple enough
explanation.
Don Ingle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Crouch" <a.crouch@unsw.edu.au>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 1:49 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Trumpet mutes


> 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.
>
|>
> All the best
> Anton
>
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