Jazzlab silencer for clarinet and sax

Fantastic way to keep your chops in check if you can't take your horn with you (e.g. on holiday). Does a fairly good job at keeping you quiet. Someone in the next room can hear the absolute faintest of sounds. If you can make your piece sound good, you'll sound even better on your horn.

The tool principle of the tool is simple and really interesting but once you start to test it you see immediately several points that could be enhanced easily:
- Some kind of foam inside the silencer to minimize the sound produced. Even if the sound level is lower, it is still annoying.
- A way to keep the silencer attached to the neck, like a cork end as on a saxophone.
- An adaptor to use the silencer after the neck in order to have a bolder sound, easier to reduce and closer to the music than noise.

With my mouthpiece (a Berg Larsen) making proposed exercises is so difficult. More or less impossible. Can be just demonstration I have to train more.

I’ll try again shortly how it is

Only reduces the sound a few dB. Might as well just use the mouthpiece mounted on the neck. More reduction that way, at no additional cost.

It's not as quiet as I would like, but it's a lot better than doing mouthpiece exercises without it.

The exercises suggested in the little manual and CD are really difficult to do though and it's not very clear to someone trying on their own what they could be doing wrong.

This thing is really the fast lane to better embouchure and better breathe control. I use it when watching TV or in the car. The result is genuinely stunning and becomes noticeable after a few sessions/days. I know that might sound like black magic, but try it!