Trumpet Mute Holder

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I was fed up with commercially available trumpet mute holders: the clamping screws take forever to attach and to remove. Solution: Design a trumpet mute holder and fix it to the foldback clamp. The diameter I chose works for my straight mute as well as for the cup mute, the plunger, and the Harmon mute. Slide a 51 mm clip into the slot. Print the "flexible mute holder" that includes the lock. The "lock plate" glues to the bottom of the holder. Print one or more "large mute holders" for Harmon mutes or straight mutes. Print a "smaller mute holder" for mutes with a thin stem. Slide one to three holders in. And just for fun: the "cup" will not only be handy for pencils, glasses, and so on, but by coincidence has exactly the right diameter for beer cans (or bottles). I used https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2683376 and scaled it to fit the 51 mm foldback clips I use. I slip one padding onto the clip for normal stands and two - one on each side - for small stands with thin tubes. For very large diameter conductor note stands, I included a different clip design which requires inserting a spring clamp (with one leg cut a bit shorter), see the images. I used these Lux Spring Clamps from Obi: https://www.obi.de/spannwerkzeuge/lux-leimklemmen-4-teilig-25-mm-classic/p/5273628