Snooky Young's Cup Mute

Grits Burgh · Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 3:50 pm Post subject: Snooky Young's Cup Mute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlX0b-AJWz4

Anybody know what brand and model of mute that Snooky is using in this video?

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Ed Kennedy · Heavyweight Member Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 3187

It looks like an old Shastock that got painted white. Stock the body is black and the cup painted gold. Emo makes a plastic version that looks very similar. Horntrader sells them.

Grits Burgh · Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 5:03 pm Post subject:

I just wish that sounding like Snooky was as easy as finding that mute. Man, that guy could play.

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Tpt_Guy · Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 5:16 pm Post subject:

Could it be an Ullven? I know there are white ones floating around.

I didn't see any of the thumb screws used on Shastocks to lock the cup in place, and the bottom of the cone looks like some paint came off and is metallic - Shastock cup mutes were fiber with a wooden bottom and a metal cup.
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Tony Scodwell · Heavyweight Member Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 1960

I think his cup mute is the same type that Diz used for many years and was made in Sweden. Charley Davis used that mute as a model for his own brand of cup mute. No thumb lock on the cup which sometimes made the cup change position when you had to pull it out quickly.

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dr_trumpet · Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: Snooky's cup mute

lakejw · Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 1:04 pm Post subject:

Looks like an Ullven to me.

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Tpt_Guy · Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 1:09 pm Post subject:

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/4087/5302184_1.jpg?v=8C781496C086810

That's worth taking a look at. It's some Ullven promo, naming the dizzy Gillespie cup mute (and the Harmon-style Mufti Mute).

Emo makes an adjustable cup in both aluminum and plastic that is a copy of the Ullven cup. They call it the Hush-Hush mute.
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Bill Ortiz · Heavyweight Member Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 904

Snooky would have sounded great if he was using his shoe as a mute.....
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LittleRusty · Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 9:34 pm Post subject:

Bill Ortiz · Heavyweight Member Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 904

Whatever shoe he'd use it would be a classy one :)
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