LAST EDITED ON Oct-08-20 AT 04:03 PM (EDT)
 
>So, as you're no doubt aware, we trumpeters can take advantage of a
>mute - a little doodad that fits into the bell of the trumpet to make
>what is normally an extremely in-your-face sound and mellows it out
>and quiets it, at the cost of greater backpressure for the player and
>requiring specific jazz music to sound -good-.

Those are also a thing for jazz trombonists. I had one! OK, it was actually a sink plunger with the handle removed. Worked, though. When you absolutely, positively have to make that sarcastic waup waup waaaaaa sound, accept no substitutes.

>Do they make those for euphonia or baritones?

They do, although they're quite expensive, and I can't really see the point of trying to practice with one in. You're certainly never going to get a decent read on how your sound is coming along. Well, I mean, there's the Yamaha Silent Brass, which is a mute combined with a mic and a sound processor so that the horn sounds correct to the player, but, uh, the euphonium model is 360 bucks.

(As an aside, check out the performers Yamaha have demonstrating the euphonium and tuba variants of the Silent Brass. TubamanShow. Masked low-brass players. "They came from the Tuba Planet to protect the peaceful tuba life on the Earth." They also have a YouTube channel. Japan is a wonderful country.)

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