Trombone Straight Mute
date: label: manufacturing date
content: 1970-1990
name: label: user
content: Russo, William
label: manufacturer
content: Humes & Berg Manufacturing Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This mute was made by Humes & Berg Manufacturing Co., Inc. in East Chicago, Indiana, around 1970-1990. It is a Pixie straight mute, made of a conical shaped aluminum tube painted white with ared strip at top and red rounded base. There are three 1-1/2" cork strips at the middle of mute. There is a printed black and silver label near the base of the mute:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>NEW STONE LINED PATENTED<br>[PI]XIE STRAIGHT MUTE<br> "FOR PLUNGER WORK"<br>HUMES & BERG MFG. CO., INC. EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This mute was previously owned and used by William Russo (1928-2003), American composer, arranger, musician, teacher, and founder of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. Russo composed more than 200 pieces for jazz orchestra. Throughout his career, Russo work included collaborations with Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Stan Kenton, Cannonball Adderley, Yehudi Menuhin, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Cleo Laine, and Billie Holiday.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, East Chicago
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Camille Davis Russo Blinstrub, Barbara Russo Evans, Alexander W. Russo, and Condee Nast Russo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0162.07
label: accession number
content: 2003.0162
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0162.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mute
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 3 in; 29.845 cm x 7.62 cm