dear flute lovers I like to raise a question, that appeals to me for a very long time. It is not a new theme, but perhaps worth considering from time to time....
Well, it seems to me that Quantz is pretty clear about breath support. He says one needs to have a strong chest, and he proposes a higher breath support than...
Dear Jed, Is it really true that Quantz is talking about breath SUPPORT, with the connotation of using your diaphragm (for there is where the support comes...
Hello Cees, Well, I think its one and the same thing for Quantz really. Yes, the flutist fills his lungs up when he has a long passage to play (and they are...
Just on impulse, I added a cheap hygrometer to an order I made recently on my tools and machines supply company. It's one of those pretty little meters sold...
Are any of these around? Online? I have my old Cloos piccolo up and running and I'm noticing some interesting things - for one I'm commiting myself to placing...
Hi Cees, and thanks for your interesting post. What was the publication in 1760 that mentioned breath support? Two of the earliest articles in TRAVERSO...
Hello Ardal, Are you a Welsh speaker? I am just learning now.... Hwyl!! Jed Hi Cees, and thanks for your interesting post. What was the publication in 1760...
Dear List - Does anyone know whether some or any Alessandro Scarlatti's cantatas and his 12 Symphonies (1715) - for various instruments - were meant to be...
All for recorder. Best wishes. Yours, David David Lasocki, Ph.D. Head of Reference Services William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University e-mail:...
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Dear all, does anyone know about the role of the transverse flute and makers of transverse flutes around the turn of the century and in the first two decades...
... a quote from Quantz in which he says Scarlatti composed some sonatas for him, isn't that an indication that he may have scored for flauto traverso...
Sorry, I don't have time to go into the question about Scarlatti thoroughly, or the one about the flute in Italy in the early 18th century. Please see the...
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I'm playing a keyless M&E 6 holed flute. I can get the 3rd octave D, but the E and F# (3rd octave also), when I play them, are really off. I am using McGee's...
... That fingering probably assumes there is an Eb key open (normal 19th century practice), but of course that's tricky on a keyless flute! E is a difficult...
Dear Joel, A keyless "traditional flute" is a keyed flute with the keys thrown away to save money in construction, and so fingerings are a compromise in the...
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Dear Laura It seems that the sonatas in question are the seven sonatas for flute, two violins and B.C published by Ut Orpheus. I have played a couple of them...
Rockstro was no fan of the old-system flute (flutes that finger like an 8-key in the lower two octaves but not in the third, eg Siccama, cylinder simple-system...
... like an 8-key in the lower two octaves but not in the third, eg Siccama, cylinder simple-system flutes etc), but he was kind enough to include in his book...
... Heh heh, it's an interesting thesis. High risk strategy though - you'd look stupid if it got around that you were purposefully publishing the wrong...
Rick wrote:> I find the fingerings Rockstro gives for psuedo "Old-fingering- ... Fingering charts for Sicamma (there are three of these: Sicamma himself's, ...
Can any of you lead me to a trill chart for the 8 keyed flute (Rod's copy of Chris Norman's 1830 Rudall & Rose)? I think I have enough alternate fingerings...
Hi Terry, Interesting that you should bring this up. It has long bothered me that the fingering 000 000 appears on modern fingering charts for C#5, yet it...
In a message dated 4/21/2006 1:35:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Now, speaking of old fingering charts, I was ... The C# fingering oooxxx is used quite...
... Yep. Bottom C is C4 in the international system, so "3rd space C#" is C#5. ... and I imagine your modern Boehm is "post-Cooper" (ie has a modern scale,...
Heh heh, I may well be talking to just Rick here, and perhaps Robert, but if anyone else has a Giorgi up their sleeve, pray join in. If you don't know what I...
Hi Beth, You could try Rockstro's trill chart from "The Flute" (1890). It, along with his fingering chart, are reproduced in Rachel Brown's book "The Early...
