The recent recording of Toy Symphony and Sleigh Ride by Leopold Mozart required the reconstruction of two toy brass trumpets due to the lack of usable original 18th-century instruments. It was the instrument maker Patrick Fraize who took on the task once again.

This section had previously discussed practice mutes during the lockdown, but following a recent concert featuring trumpets with mutes, a few words on trumpet mutes from the 17th and 18th centuries now seem necessary.