Tom Crown Copper Trumpet Straight Mute

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Tom Crown Copper Trumpet Straight Mute

Tom Crown Copper Trumpet Straight Mute (TC3C): a good quality all copper mute from one of America’s finest mute manufacturers. Greater projection and more solid and considerably darker, richer sound than the all-aluminium version. The corks on this mute are large and will need to be sanded to fit.

Tom Crown on mute materials and sounds:

Different types of metal definitely affect the mute’s tone quality and response, much as different metals used in a bell affect a trumpet’s tone quality and response. It is very difficult to describe what these differences are, however. One person’s “dark” is another person’s “dead”; another person’s “bright” is someone else’s “tinny.” To me, the Tom Crown all-aluminium straight mute is bright, the brass-end mute less bright or somewhat dead, and the copper-end or the all-copper mute is dark.

About Tom Crown

Tom Crown has been making mutes since 1969 having been inspired by a mute that Adolph Herseth used on the D trumpet. With help and feedback from colleagues in the Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he developed other trumpet mutes, piccolo trumpet mutes,  tenor and bass trombone mutes and a French horn mute.

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