My wife wants to know if Yamaha makes this for humans. She thinks me and my side of the family talk too loud.
Yamaha's Latest Silent Brass
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#32I've been wondering about analogous things for flute, clarinet and cello. From what i read here, they're all compromises, except for a heavily baffled room in the basement. I really liked an Azola electric (solid body) double bass that i tried but i was too slow in making a decision, and they're now very hard to find.
While we're talking Yamaha, i should mention my digital piano by them is pretty noisy while playing on headphones, i.e. the keybed thumps pretty audibly to everybody else within 30 yards. I think Korg and Roland keybeds are a little softer, but caveat piano players, not as great a 3AM instrument as you would think.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a string player. You can get practice mutes for string instruments, and somewhat analogous to back pressure, they change how the instrument responds to the bow. The result is that you can practice some things (left hand technique, repertoire) but not others. For myself, I'm practicing for pleasure and not to advance professionally. Muting my instrument would spoil it. Fortunately I've got a tolerant family and a…
Would an electric instrument help, or do they feel too different from acoustic, too?
Too different. Actually, another instrument that I play is electric bass, and I simply practice it unplugged.
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#34Those lucky brass players! We saxophonists have to deal with stuff like this: http://www.wwbw.com/E-sax-Practice-Mute-System-for-Alto-Saxo...
I'd love to hear if anybody's ever used this and had success with it.