Tacet Rosin - Soap Up and Soften Your Sound
Is your violin just too loud? We're excited to introduce two rosins today that help you soap up your sound and play SOFTER!
1) "Tacet Zest - en peu" for casual sound reduction
2) "Tacet - Forever Irish Spring" (shhh) for aggressive and long term sound reduction.
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We all know that practice mutes simply aren't the answer to reducing the volume of your string instrument. They sound terrible, affect playability, and can damage your instrument when they fall off. Enough is enough!
With our new offering of Tacet Rosins, you can safely and enjoyably play your instrument without damaging your hearing, or annoying your neighbors and colleagues.
Made from cutting edge sound inhibitors, advanced polyrhythms, and the tears of violists, plus our slippery secret ingredient - it's not just a fancy rosin video with sultry foreign accents (and scents), it's SCIENCE!
Parents! This rosin is the answer to your prayers. We know listening to your child practice makes you want to take an ice pick to your skull, but with Tacet Rosin, you'll actually enjoy their practice sessions! It's like they're not playing at all!
Pick up your choice of "Tacet - en peu" or "Tacet Forever" (shhh) today at Fiddlershop.com.
Oh, and Happy April Fools!
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I passed this out to the viola section at orchestra -- they have never sounded so good!
I'm sensing from this and other things that the USA and the UK treat April Fool's jokes very differently.
The British idea is you present an impossibility as though it were genuine. People who swallow it are then fools. Sometimes at the end of the day you might hear someone say "I didn't spot any jokes today. Maybe it was the one about...". The spoofs tend to merge in with the serious news and are thus camouflaged and hard to detect. So the tacet rosin spoof would have been presented as a serious rosin advert. At least, this used to be the British way. I think as they run out of ideas, it gets more obvious. The rosin spoof was a good idea.
The American idea seems to be to make up any piece of fun.
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April 1, 2025 at 06:12 PM · Helped me find that clean, homeopathic sound I can always not-hear in my head. - A satisfied customer