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November 2023: The trumpet straight mutes are all checked for good tuning, and I am quite confident that these sound good. I have made some with three corks and four corks. I think the four cork ones stick the the bell better, thus safer to use.
Trumpet straight mutes in the "blonde" wood are $35 each or 3 for $100
I can make them out of a very aromatic cedar for $40 each and the tone is possibly warmer.
The French horn mutes are now
child proof and tuneable. Child proof in that if someone drops something in your mute, you can pull the tuning tube and easily shake anything out.
They are tuneable using Mr. Burdick unique "Poor Richard's" sliding tube inside the tube design. YOu cna pull out the main tube and slide the inner plastic sleeve to where it works best.
Richard now has his final design comeplete A large French horn possibly not for smaller horn bells. He makes them in Cedar ($90) or stained quality plywood $80)
<video the sound of the cedar or plywood>
How Richard's "Poor Richard's Tuning System" works
How Richard's Ajustable wrist string works
mutes are somewhat harder to make. Prices vary from $40 to $85 depending on type of wood, and quality. An average high school student can use the cheaper ones. Ones with a string for the wrist cost $5 more. I have tried many different subtle variation of the horn mutes, so a player would need to bring a horn to my house a try different mutes to find the most suitable one, especially since bell sizes vary a bit.
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Mid December comments:
I am doing a tube insert into the top so it can be slightly tuned, or the tube can be shortened for flat or replaced if sharp. I am redesigning the tube right now. 
For the string I was putting two beads on the string to adjust the length, but it got caught in my horn the other day, so maybe I'll just add a string and the player can tie a knot to adjust the length . . I'm working on them about a hour a day. My favorite wood is the cedar. See the picture.
Disclaimers:
It's your responsibily to make sure the insert tube is in seculrly, boxing tape can be wrapped around the tube to make it if more tightly. Check that you string is glue in sercurly once and a while so the string doesn't come loose couasing a big clunky sound durrring a concert.
If you drop your mute, It's not my fault.
Be careful the the "Poor Richard's" tuning tube is not to far our into the mute. I have not yet experience one commming out inside the mute, it might be hard to get out
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CD86 - 19th Century Horn music by Lütgen & Wünderer
CD85 - Otto Nicolai Duets on Natural horn
CD84 - Artot Quartet No. 1
CD83 - Horn Quartets by Artot
CD82 - Horn Trios by Artot
CD81 - 64 String Quartets
CD80 - 64 Horn Quartets
CD79 - 18th Century Horn
CD78 - Beethoven & Reicha
CD77 - Yin-Yang Beauty No. 2
CD76 - Found These: Three
CD75 - RoB's Chamber Music volume one
CD74 - Following Glacier
CD73 - Handsome horn solos
volume two
CD72 - Gumpert Horn Quatets volume four
CD71 - Gumpert
Horn Quartets vol. 3
CD70 - Gumpert
Horn Quartets vol. 2
CD69 - Gumpert
Horn Quartets vol. 1
CD68 Handsome horn solos
volume one
CD67 - Glacier Suites etc.
CD66 - A Lake
of Violet Flames Op. 310
CD65 - More natural horn music
CD64 - 64 horn solos (icsV5), Op. 293
CD63 - 64 horn duets (icsV5), Op. 292
CD62 - The Mindset Nonet,
Op. 242
CD61 - Vortex Breathing
& I Ching Chants, Op. 244
CD60 - Wilder Graas Presser
CD59 - A Walk with Giants
& Motor 1 2 4 8 7 5
CD58 - Music We Publish
CD57 - Piano works: Wave, Relentless & more
CD56 - Particles
CD55 - Duets
CD54 - The 270's
CD53 - Burdick & Harbison Quartets
CD52- Found These Too
CD51- Microtonal
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CD50 - I Ching Elements
CD49 - Brass Music, Op. 9, 10, 45, 268, 269 &150b
CD48 - Giovanni Gastoldi
CD47 - I Ching Rhythms,Op. 209
CD46 - A Rainbow of
I Ching triads
CD45 - North American
Horn Music
CD44 - Opening the Sphinx
CD43 - Music of Silvio Coscia
CD42 - I Sound My Horn
CD41 - American Horn Music vol. 2
CD40 - Retrospective II- The horn Quartets
CD39 - Bach
by Popular Demand
CD38 - Matthew Locke
Broken & Flatte Consorts
CD37 - Microtonal music of
Richard Burdick
CD36 - Classical Natural Horn
Duvernoy & Schneider
CD35 - Twenty-Two Trios for Horns, Op. 156
CD34 - Natural Horn Music FOUND
CD33 - More than 64 Quartets for horns based on the I Ching
CD32 - American Horn Music
of the 40's & 50's
CD31 - Grand Music of J. F. Gallay, vol. 2
CD30 - Grand Music of J. F. Gallay, vol. 1
CD29 - Astral Waves
& Phosphor
CD28 - WAVES AND PARTICLES, opus 159
PART ONE - Waves
CD27a - Castelnuovo Tedesco horn quartet
CD27 - Anton Reicha Trios
Op. 82 & 93 complete
CD26 - Accuracy Studies For the French horn student
CD25a - Bach Cantata
BWV 132 No. 1
CD25 - Nice Notes
CD24 - Duets, opus 132 complete in the "one takes"
CD23 - More than 64 solos for Horn, Op. 139
CD22 – Naderman’s Music
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CD21 - Beyond Favorites
CD20 - Classical Gas
CD19a - Dauprat's trios
Op. 26
CD19 - Dauprat's Grand Music
CD18 - Louis-Francois Dauprat
Duos for Horns,
Opus 13 vol. 2
CD17 - Favorites
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Barber,
Grieg,
Bach BWV 82 & 225
CD16 - Howlers Revised 2006
Dauprat Duets, Op. 14, Mozart
CD15 - J. S. Bach's Easter Oratorio, BWV 249
CD14 - Dauprat’s Op. 8
CD13 - 64 Duets, Op. 132 part two #17-34
CD12 - Reveré by V. Herbert
CD11 - 64 Duets, Op. 132 part one #1-16
CD10 - The Planets for
solo horn, opus 19
CD 9 - Louis-Francois Dauprat
Duos for Horns, Op. 13
CD 8 - Portal Solo Multi-phonic French horn In An Environment of drones & overtones.
CD 7 - INFINITY ONE
CD 6 - "Richard Burdick with tape"
CD 5 - "Let Me Out
CD 4 - 4.5 INCH SINGLE Aaron Blumenfeld’s Horn Sonata
CD 3 - H o w l e r s
Louis-François Dauprat’s
20 Duos for Natural
CD 2 - I Ching Arpeggios
CD 1 - Rebel with a Horn THE RIGHT COLUMN