Unlike many Hand Made products these days which are just hand assembled from machine built parts, Peter Gane Mutes are hand made from start to finish. The mutes start their life as a flat sheet before being cut, formed, glued, punched, riveted, scraped, sanded, corked, painted, varnished and stickered all by hand with the end result being a mute that works as well today as when they were first introduced more than 40 years ago.