Super help, thanks all. The part is in Dances in the CaneBrakes. Super fun btw. The conductor seems fine with the part unmuted. Tbh, I have reasonably long arms, but there’s no way I could pull a mute without putting the horn on the floor.

So what’s the collective wisdom on mutes. I have a piece with a muted 1-tuba part, but none of us owns a mute and I can’t configure out how we would remove the mute without help when the muted section ends.