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How to make a saxophone mute4/4/2024 So I’ve started thinking about plastic enclosure systems. Works OK for pianissimo playing but not that efficient, still a lot of resonance, and too big alteration of playing techniques when returning to normal playing. I tried the sponge mute you put in mouthpiece, neck and bell. So here in France, playing outside will be 4 months per year… not acceptable solution. Biggest issue is if it rains there is no music, if it’s cold no music too. But as I have to take my car to go playing, I play only one time per day. So since a while, I play outside which is perfect for tone practice, as you can play as loud as you want. A good acoustically corrected isolated booth is around 8000 euros, which is a big budget BTW. Even practicing scales and arpeggios was sometimes odd and uncomfortable because of those resonating notes, and recordings were hard to mix well because of those colorations. To be honest, it was efficient for isolation, but wasn’t that good for acoustics with harsh and short reverb and lot of disturbing stationnary waves. In the past, I had an isolated booth but had to sell it because of space in the appartment for my children. Some appartments don’t even allow to play pianissimo, everybody will hear you because of resonance. It’s a loud instrument, and us players have to practice a lot, many hours per day everyday to have good skills. Playing sax can be problematic related to neighbourgs tolerance. Here is my full review of the new Saxmute One for sax tenor.
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