Artino PM-01 Practice Mute VN/VA

This works great. I had bought the thomann violin starter and this one had problems being put on the bridge. But I loosened the nails and tried to expand the spaces that allow the bridge to slide in them so the muter could slide deeper into the bridge. You get a much muted sound but the tone is obviously still there. You no longer see the bow but you can see where you're bowing. The only thing I found weird about it was the fact that it doesn't go all the way down, which is fine and for the price, it does its job really well.

It is a heavy mute and quite big so it blocks the view of the strings next to the bridge, as well as blocks from bowing very close to the bridge. However, it does mute the sound very notably.

Will definitely mute the sound which is perfect for avoiding distributing any neighbors with playing. But this comes at the cost of some sound quality.