The BuZZ

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Calicchio: Solo Copper 3/9
Getzen: Eterna Flugel
GR: 66MX, Zottola: 66 FL
Assorted Garage Tools

"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins."
Dizzy

PH

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Grav

Ciao "The Buzz",
I really dig my Ullven cup mute (Swedish) but have a drawer full of harmons. I rotate between a few like the Jo-Ral, Shew, and a really old original harmon. A friend of mine in NYC has a stomvi harmon that's no longer made and it's got the best sound for jazz I've ever experienced. Too bad you can't find them. He did in Spain years back and bought it for like $10. I did just get a Best Brass warm-up/practice mute and really like it, so I've ordered their harmon (wow-wow) mute from Dillon's. Of course it's on back order so I'm waiting on it. Claudio Roditi has nice things to say about it so I'm hopefull it'll be "the one" as far as harmons go. Is anyone else hip to these mutes? If so, some feedback would be appreciated. Grazie!

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Andy Gravish -- Eclipse Artist

Eclipse XLR Scratch Gold
Eclipse Red Flug Scratch Gold
some Bachs
some Committees
some Constellations
a Callicchio and a Silver Flair somewhere

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"I started writing a book about my life but had to put it down when I realized that nobody would believe it." --- Chet Baker

Dale Proctor

Humes & Berg for cup and bucket. Harmon for Harmon. Vacchiano for straight. Tradition.....

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Olde Towne Brass
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Brass Band of Huntsville
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"Hit it hard and wish it well." - Claude Gordon

tptshark

Jo-Ral straight (copper bottom) and Harmon (copper bubble).
Trumcor Cup mute.

very occassionally use a humes and berg cup for big band stuff.

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rowuk

Tom Crown Straight (Brass cap), Bach plastic Cup, Harmon, Humes and Berg plunger.

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Richard Oliver

Straight: Bach plastic and Wick metal

Cup: Humes & Berg and Wick

Harmon: Harmon

trumpetnick

Hi, Buzz!

I am using:

DW Straight
Trumcore Classical Cup
Jo Ral All Copper Trumpet Bubble Mute
Getting soon :
2 Trumcore straght mute with copper bottom (one for the piccolo and another one for B flat and C trumpets)
Trumcore Lyrical Mute or Sotto Voce mute (have not decide it yet.

Jo-ral copper bubble mute has great sound and intonation but as is quite heavy tends to fall off.

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Spada Bach B flat 72, leadpipe 2L/DWMM1.5C
Spada Bach C 256, leadpipe 2LQ/DWMM1.5C
1956 Olds Ambassador Cornet
Spada Custom Piccolo

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Schwab

You can never have too many mutes.

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Stage 1 New York

wilcox96

Harmon - I have the H&B Wa Wa Du-All and the Wee-Zee.

Cup - H&B Stonelined

Straight - Jo-Ral aluminum and an H&B philharmonic copper bottom

Bucket - H&B Stonelined

Plunger - Lowe's Home Improvement store model. (I stuck a plastic champagne screw cork in the top end, which not only helps the grip, but I'm sure helps channel Clark Terry...ha).

Solotone (aka Clear Tone) - Shastock

Practice (quiet) mute - Jo-Ral

A couple that I'm going to purchase... the Eazy bucket mute and I'd love to get ahold of an Emo harmon style mute. I may also go for another Solotone some day (and will get the H&B).

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NYTC Endorsing Artist
Stage 1 California Light
Bells: Rose brass, Copper rimless,
Gold brass, Yellow brass rimless
Bach Strad Flugelhorn
GR Mouthpieces
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