The Denis Wick Euphonium Practice Mute is just superb for quiet practice. Given time this mute, used correctly, will open up your sound. Read more
Denis Wick practice mutes are perhaps the best teaching aid ever invented. Not only do they fulfil the need for the IN TUNE painless practice, so essential in the development of every young player and an indispensible 'hotel mute' for the professional, but they also possible an enormous improvement in tone quality using the entire vital capacity as a vibrating air column by opening the throat spaces through playing loudly in the low register.
Steven Mead uses this mute as an essential tool for practice. It will make you very popular with family members who don't wish to hear you full-on all the time and with neighbours who will have nothing to complain about !