... middle joints for different tunings? If it does, do you feel that it responds better with one than the others, or does it play equally well with all of...
Tuning with keyboard players is always a lot of fun, even when playing Boehm flutes. Of course some pianists are a great joy to work with, others are damn...
Thanks Rod I am sure you have met many more professional flute players than I did. So I trust your experience! Th x=30 mm for Bruggen's Rottenburgh is a...
G, ... Coming from the dry prairies, I find that keeping my wee container of homemade cork grease (beeswax/canola oil) in my pocket at all times works just...
Hello everyone. I am searching for a piece of real ivory to complete a flute for myself. It as to be 82mm long and 43mm diameter. I can offer in exchange a...
First of all thanks to everybody, interesting thread Just one question. Leaving aside the absolute position of the cork for the moment I believed that the...
Dear Alan, It is true, that all things being equal, the cork distance tends to increase as the middle joints become shorter, but all things are not equal in...
Rod Cameron
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Mar 2, 2004 7:07 pm
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Rod, Thank you so much for your post. It made me think again of the material we still use for our flutes, wood. Could it be that due to the conditions we...
... Yes of course, but we do like to work with wood. No other material has the same feel and look. Maybe I'm biased because my grandfather was a cartwright (is...
... material we still use for our flutes, wood. Could it be that due to the conditions we necessarily submit flutes to (for example, the large variations in...
... my ... No, wood is truly beautiful. ... a ... Hmm, that's right, i forgot B.C. makes clarinets out of the stuff. I think there are recorders too (Moeck?)....
Hi, earlyfluteglauber wrote:.....It made me think again of the material we still use for our flutes, wood. .....Maybe it was the best available material 200 ...
The section on the flute in Hector Berlioz's Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes is schizophrenic and confusing. He starts out by...
... [...] ... Yes, Robocop's flute keeps coming up! I'd love to try one out; my favourite idea there are the magnets used in place of sproings. ... Yes. The...
... or carbon-fibre See http://www.matitflutes.com/index.html to find out about the material. As you will also see at this web site, modern flutes are already...
Dear Rod Thanks for such a long and detailed reply. I did wonder if the answer to my question was going to be of the "all things being equal" variety but did...
Dear Alan, Thank you for your reply! Yes, I would say that after a few re-reamings, it appears that the wood seems to settle into a stable condition that...
Rod Cameron
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Mar 3, 2004 11:08 pm
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Dear Rick, It is interesting to read all of Berlioz' comments, especially in light of the fact that flute was one of the first instruments he has played, and...
Is it also possible that one's physical makeup will "fit" better with some instruments than others? I know this was the case when I played horn. I'm not a...
Hi Rick, I hope all is well. I think the Berlioz (which was, after all, the first orchestration text ever written) only reflects the changes in taste going on...
John H. Thow
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Mar 4, 2004 3:53 pm
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... on either ... far as I ... you know ... Yes, wasn't the Gluck 'Orfeo' solo not originally written for the recorder (cfr. E Hunt)? Peter...
Hi, Thanks to 'g' and David for their input as to the possibility of using carbon fibre for earlyflutes. g wrote: my favourite idea there are the magnets used...
Dear Rick A few thoughts about Berlioz : When he wrote that, most of the french flutes were only five-keyed (i.e. no double f-key), and the forked F was...
While we're on the subject of the Gluck, I'd like to ask what was the original title of the movement? Michel Debost once wrote an article for Flute Talk ...
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Hello, It is nice to join such a lively discussion group. I like to play the tenor recorder in my spare time. I would like to learn the Traverso and I started...
I had forgotten about Edgar Hunt's theory that Gluck's commonly-called 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits' was originally written for recorder. I was a bit...
... It is nice to join such a lively discussion group. I like to play the tenor recorder in my spare time. I would like to learn the Traverso and I started to...
Just a word about Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice". This opera, alas, exists in many different versions and the original ms. score has unfortunately been lost....
... Most likely because the Dover edition is a reprint of the DTÕ edition (based on the Vienna version) in which the piece does not occur. I think it comes...
