Yamaha Silent Brass Bass Bone Fitting

[jackbasstrombone]

I see that the Yamaha Silent Brass mutes don’t have an option for bass trombone. Has anybody used the normal trombone one on bass or knows if it would fit?

[BGuttman]

The older mute fit my bass trombone fine.

You could try building up the corks to fit a bass trombone.

[Kingfan]

Bruce is right. The older version will fit a bass. It will make the horn front heavy, but it will work.

[Matt K]

The new French horn one kind of works but it makes the intonation weird iirc.

[2bobone]

The older LARGE mute even fits the large bell throat of my King 8B, but the smaller, newer design "scalloped" mute required that I make another cork layer to build it out of the bell throat. I used the mute as a guide, rolled it on a sheet of paper, tracing the arc as it rolled and then when the paper template fit the mute properly I transferred it to a sheet of cork and cut the final example. It is true that the smaller mute is "squirrelly" intonation-wise especially in the lower register. The Yamaha Silent Mute isn't perfect but is sure does come in handy !

[rizzo67]

As I use the smaller version both on small tenor and bass, I use a neopren belt, possibly cut from a surf suits arm.
It doesn't clamp perfect, but the silent brass endures occasional drops and as it is not on stage..

[rizzo67]

Here two images to show it fits at least a 9.5 inch bell.

[Mr412]

I tried that devise on my bass horn and thoroughly hated it. So I switched to the Nepus barrette covering for one year while transitioning from a house through an apartment to a 55+ five-plex with us in the end unit that has a secondary bedroom on an outside wall. What a relief to be free of BOTH devises now, although I still use the Nepus for special effects; sometimes full on and sometimes half on!