This is Nakamura from Kubokan!
Today, I’d like to introduce a new product.
To all you trumpet players out there, how do you usually practice?
Renting a studio or karaoke room, playing by the river or in a park, practicing at home without any issues (or in a soundproof room), using a practice mute... and so on.
I often rent a karaoke room to practice myself, but sometimes I just don’t feel like going out… You know how it is!
After all, we’re only human.
When practicing at home, I think most people need to find ways to keep the noise down. A soundproof room would be ideal, but they take up a lot of space and cost at least several hundred thousand yen—and it’s not uncommon for them to cost a million yen.
Fortunately, there are “practice mutes” for the trumpet, and they’re incredibly useful—but sound suppression always comes at a cost. No matter how excellent the mute is, it still makes the instrument feel a bit muffled. If you play the trumpet, you know exactly what I mean—that feeling where you’ve done your basic exercises but it doesn’t feel like you’ve actually practiced.
I’ve gone on a bit, but the mute I’m introducing today is a new type of practice mute designed around the concept of a “minimal soundproof room,” which significantly improves upon the shortcomings of conventional practice mutes.
Although it looks large, it’s surprisingly light, allowing you to practice with a natural playing feel. I believe this product will send shockwaves through the mute industry, which has long assumed there’s a trade-off between an “open playing feel” and “sound-dampening performance.”
The volume of a standard trumpet is said to be around 100–120 dB, and using this product can reduce that to about 75–85 dB. Since a typical practice mute brings the volume down to around 70–80 dB, this one is perhaps just a little louder.
Even so, with this playing feel, you’ll likely find yourself thinking, “It’s a hassle to go outside, but maybe I’ll just practice a little at home.” After all, what’s the point of having a practice mute if you don’t feel like practicing?
Click here to purchase (^^)
Nakamura