This practice mute is excellent for practicing at home. It takes some getting used to it, because it requires more effort to blow, but this is an added bonus for me. Would recommend.

The volume reduction is very good with this mute, which is what I was looking for (my family and neighbors thought this was very good too). It also is a great help in highlighting intonation deficiencies. However, there is a huge amount of resistance when playing - too much. The mute changes the whole way your horn plays - with the mute in I can get high notes that I wouldn't usually be able to get and after about a week or so of playing with this mute in I find it hard to play without it.

I wanted to do my practice with the trombone quietly, and after comprehensive research, I found this mute. It's been a while since I bought it and I can fairly say that It does the job and its light weight gives it another advantage.