Facet Mutes will be exhibiting at the Rocky Mountain Trumpet Festival, October 29th and 30th, 2010 - Metro State College - Denver, Colorado.

Facet Mutes grew out of a pedagogical seed used to enhance learning. Put two creative people together, come up with an idea, add a little craftsmanship, and a business is born. That's the long and short of how Facet Mutes got its start.

Facet Mutes has designed a product for brass players that has a sound quality which will appeal to our audiences. Using domestic and exotic hardwoods, each Facet Mute is individually handcrafted into a mute that not only plays well, it is a beautiful work of art, too. Because of their design, they are more durable and often lighter in weight than most traditional mutes.

Each hardwood has its own characteristic timbre, which relates basically to the density and weight of the individual wood type. Through testing, we have learned which hardwoods will deliver a traditional muted sound, which hardwoods will enhance our muted sound, and which hardwoods help us to control our muted sound. For this reason, our mutes are divided into three categories, based on these weights. Brass players can now choose a mute based not only on its playability, but on its aesthetic appeal as well.

Our standard line of ten hardwood mutes was carefully selected from each of the three basic hardwood densities. We have labeled these lines as: Low Density, Medium Density, and High Density. Within each group are a range of hardwoods with grains and colors that are sure to help us to deliver the best sound possible to our audiences. We also have created a list of other domestic and exotic hardwoods that you may select from as a custom order.