"Trixie" 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 "Trixie" mute, made of a plunger shaped tan and red molded rubber with a "D-shaped" handle on top. There is printed label:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>NEW STONE - LINED "TRIXIE" MUTE, HUMES & BERG MFG. CO., INC. EAST CHICAGO, IND.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>(and cast on side of mute):</p>
label: Description
content: <p>NEW STONE-LINED<br>TRIXIE MUTE<br>MFG. BY<br>HUMES & BERG MFG. CO., INC.<br>EAST CHICAGO IND.</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: 2003.0162.08
label: accession number
content: 2003.0162
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0162.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mute
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 6 1/8 in; 12.7 cm x 15.5575 cm