Silencing Acoustic Guitar For Quiet Practice?

BillDaCostaWilliams

I rolled up a couple of tissues and slipped the tissue tube under the strings, et voila:

Leonel Louke has been using a similar technique for some years to produce a kora effect from his guitar.

Here he talks about  his version of Naima (though actually I’ve heard him doing it more obviously on other stuff)

“you hear me mimicking both the kora and kalimba in the piece. To do that, I use a rectangular piece of paper that’s two inches by one inch and weave it up and down through all six strings next to the bridge and then mute on top of it. When I play with open strings, they vibrate against the paper to give me that ringing, percussive kora or kalimba sound.”

juanderer

Will single-ply work? Asking for a friend...

Bones

Hey Wim. Cheeto-man is ready to woodshed on Air Force One.

Lango-Django

Wow, great idea, Chiefbigeasy!

I am using it on my banjo and it works great!

Chiefbigeasy

I knew you guys were going to have a field day with this. (I'm surprised nobody suggested it looked like a tampon or the like. Hey, that gives me an idea.)

It is, in fact, a couple of kleenex tissues folded and rolled up and slipped under the strings. And, you know what, it's the best sounding workable, adjustable mute I have used so far.

This is from somebody who was seriously thinking of buying that AJL silent guitar and who actually did buy a Yamaha silent guitar. The tissue mute (I should patent this idea!) sounds better and is easier to adjust and use than anything I've tried so far.

Just sayin . . .

Bones

Gives the term "blowing" a whole new meaning....

Lango-Django

Here’s another idea some people might like.... guitar aromatherapy...

...the other day my wife was wearing a perfume I had never smelled before, and I immediately loved it...

...so I borrowed it and sprayed some inside my guitar...

...and I enjoy it whenever I practise...