A small pipe or mouthpiece placed in a trumpet or bugle in order to muffle or reduce the sound; a trumpet fitted with this. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > mute for (10) sordine1591 A small pipe or mouthpiece placed in a trumpet or bugle in order to muffle or reduce the sound; a trumpet fitted with this. Also figurative. Obsolete. sourdet1611 (See quot. 1611 and sourdine, n.) sourdine?1779 A mute or damper. mute1841 Music. A device used to muffle or otherwise alter the sound of a wind instrument. wah-wah mute1925 attributive, esp. as (sense 1) wah-wah effect, wah-wah mute, wah-wah pedal. straight mute1926 a simple cone-shaped mute for a trumpet or trombone. plunger1934 A thing which plunges or may be plunged; esp. an instrument or part of a mechanism which works or is… Jazz (chiefly colloquial). A device used as a… plunger mute1935 = sense 2h. cup mute1955 a kind of mute for a trumpet or trombone; so cup-muted adj. harmon mute1955 A type of mute for a trumpet or trombone, also called wa-wa mute. |
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