That's it! Give it a try and you'll be amazed at how sound is muted. If you want even more muting, put second pin on bass side of bridge. (When you do this, it looks like your violin is wearing a mustache!)

Doesn't get much easier than this -- plus there's probably room in your case for two clothespins. Simple, cheap, and effective (although it does look a little goofy).

His sister Susan, however, disagreed, saying, “It’s beautiful against all gray rocks and bare trees.”

No matter what people thought, everyone visiting park seemed to discuss artistic merits of project, even talking to strangers in a city of people who rarely make eye contact. The communal experience, says Beth Fichtel who works in Manhattan, is better than 7,500 steel structures wrapped throughout park. “The energy in air is contagious and it’s cool to be in something as enormous as Central Park and be surrounded by tons of people all talking about same thing.”

While he jogged underneath colorful billowing fabric, Manhattan resident Danny Schwartz asked, “I like it, but I don’t think it can be defined as art, but who’s to say really?”

Well, architectural student Amanda Herron, 22, reverently believes that Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work is highly creative and refused to miss their recent endeavor, so she flew in from Alabama just for event.

“Their art is inspiring, we study their installations in school and how they are able to change a space dramatically, then leave and change what people originally thought of space,” said Herron. “It is so interesting, it comes and people soak it in, and then it’s gone.”

Herron further suspects that even after The Gates are removed, people will still be discussing them. For now her theory is true, The Gates are a big topic of conversation and debate at office, in news and around world.