[Dixielandjazz] Re: Mutes

[Dan Augustine]

     That's it!  Y'all have persuaded me.
     The next gig i play i'm definitely bringing my tuba mute! 
(Admittedly it was, in a former life, a recidivist wastebasket with 
regrettable McCarthyesque tendencies, but after enough appropriate 
tours in the Neo-Reformation Re-Education system under Governor 
Schwarzenegger it has emerged fully congruent with the sound ideal of 
the In-Sink-er-ator paradigm.  And not a minute too soon, either, as 
i was starting to lean toward the subtle sonorances of WeedWhacker on 
steroids.)
     You can't really appreciate authentic 'Traditional Jazz' 
(whatever the hell that is) until you've heard "Someday Sweetheart" 
with the main melody played on a muted tuba.  (Detractors--soon may 
they be worm's-meat--may contend that the mute was not nearly 
absolute enough and allowed some sound, tragically, to escape.  Yeah, 
tough noogies.  Deal with it.)

     Dan
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>From: "Patrick Cooke" <patcooke at cox.net>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Cloddish MUSICIANS?
>Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:31:04 -0500
>
>Kash said:
>>Don't fully understand the discussion about whether or not the use of mutes
>is a good thing or not.  Isn't that a rather personal thing?
>     You bet it is!  If it makes a sound you like, use it!  No matter what
>you do, there will always be one or two that will find fault with it.  To
>thine own self be true.
>    Pat Cooke

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