Dear Clive thanks for your interesting remarks. I have made a flute in G with a seventh hole. it helps to tune Csharp (12-/4-6/- and B natural 123/-56/- as you...
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
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Jun 1, 2003 7:30 am
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... and ... thanks ardal... have been playing the Boie copy, works well, E3 with alternate fingerings saves the day, gets a good high B, have you made many? we...
I am looking for a flute wooden case or box maker for an option to my costomers. Actually I offer only very beautifull soft cases made by someone mear me....
Hello, I am looking for information on cuban wooden flutes and flute music, if anyone knows any publications, or websites I could contact? Or any teachers in...
Francophonic flute players - someone has asked me what's the French word for Cocus? Terry __________________________________________________________________ ...
Hi Terry long ago, there was an article in Early Music by Michael G Zadro about woods used for woodwinds. My brother and me asked to "le Centre technique ...
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu@...
Jun 2, 2003 7:37 am
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Excellent, thanks Philippe. I'll pass that on to the person who asked. Now that you bring it up, I notice Granadilla (or any of the related spellings) isn't...
Hi Terry grenadille (french spelling) is a general term for african blackwood as shown on : http://www.woodmarket.com/french/blackwoods.asp but can be, like...
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
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Jun 2, 2003 2:46 pm
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... But cocus wood is/was neither African nor black but West Indian and resembling a very dense rosewood. One modern substitute is apparently mopane, but...
Right it's what I wrote in a former message, cocuswood is Brya Ebenus from West Indies or South America; I AM NOT SURE that Terry meant this particular wood...
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu@...
Jun 2, 2003 4:25 pm
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... I'm back (got back last night). I spent 2 weeks looking at Telemann manuscripts in Frankfurt, Darmstadt, and Dresden. Ardal, if the Cambridge Companion to...
I believe it is Coceux ... From: Philippe Allain-Dupré To: earlyflute@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [earlyflute] Le cocus?...
I am far less knowledgeable than philippe but I have always heard Cocus wood refered as Ebene de la Jamaique in French (Jamaica Ebony). The general French...
Hi all! A very strange problem : I became allergic about the grenadille ! Now , I have got two matters : I can not play the flutes in made in this wood , and...
Prosdocimi, Giuseppe
prosdocimig@...
Jun 3, 2003 11:06 am
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In a message dated 6/3/2003 6:39:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, thmayes@... ... I think the general public anywhere has some confusion as to what woods are ...
Greetings all, I just signed in this group. I am also a member of the flutenet at Yahoo. I play the Boehm flute but wish for a baroque flute for my 50th ...
Right Thierry Rockstro made a distinction between jamaican and south american variety of cocuswood. He prefered the former, ebène de la Jamaïque, rather...
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu@...
Jun 3, 2003 1:40 pm
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Sorry, i never found that name anywhere ... De : Ardagh <Ardagh@...> À : earlyflute@yahoogroups.com <earlyflute@yahoogroups.com> Date : mardi 3 juin...
Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu@...
Jun 3, 2003 1:40 pm
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Giuseppe-- There was a lot of talk about a month ago in the Yahoo recorder group about allergies to woods and one of our members, a doctor and recorder player,...
Dear Giuseppe, I am not surprised to hear about your problems. I used to make instruments of grenadilla (as we call it here) but now I have stopped using that...
... have stopped using that wood. ... seemed to get worse as the exposure and time went on. ... seem to be particularly irritating. I'm pretty allergic to...
Nail polish contains toluene and different toxins including some that mimic estrogen. Giuseppe might then have need to change more than his flutes. There must...
How can I tell which wood I have? I have 6 or 7 that I have been told are ebony but I think my old Haynes modern system flute cir.1910 is grenadilla. I had a...
In a message dated 6/4/2003 6:42:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... This German flute is clearly not African Blackwood -- a lighter brown and with a more clearly...
I don't know much about "old Haynes" but I'd have guessed 1910 might be more likely to be cocus. Brown to very dark brown, while blackwood is more like ebony,...
