Mute

x. (Ger, Dam’pfer; Fr. sourdine; It, sord i’no.) The mute for the violin, etc., is a piece of bra or other heavy material, having cleft projections which permit of its firm adjustment on the bridge without touching the strings; its weight deadens the resonance of the sound-box. (Recently made in the form of a spring clip.) The direction for puttings on the mutes is ‘‘con sordini”; for taking them off, ‘‘senza sord in".—2, A pear-shaped, leather covered pad intro diced into the bell of the horn or trumpet to modify the tone. Other forms of this mute are (for the horn) a pasteboard cone with a hole at the apex, and (for the trumpet) a cylindrical tube of wood pierced with holes. fu’t(h)ig (Ger.) Spirited, bold. (Also adverbs Mutie’rung (Ger.) Mutation 1.