Hi, As many of you know, I am writing a flute dictionary. It will be published by Scarecrow Press in the near future. I am trying to find out the last odd...
Hi Everyone, I have some bees wax but it's far too hard for lubricating flute joint threads. I also have some liquid lanolin, as well as a jar of lanolin that...
... I remember seeing Paul Davis (scallywag London flute dealer, now deceased) heating wax and Vaseline together in a spoon over a small flame for this...
Hello JIm, Chapstick works very well for cork grease, and will store inside your headjoint when the flute is in its case. If you go to the hardware store, you...
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Oct 2, 2006 2:08 am
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If I may add some experience from my laboratory days, I would suggest you to heat the mixture * slowly and gently *, as it can become very dangerously...
ciao paolo, rod, et al To make thread grease I use a jam-jar in my fan assisted oven set to about 100 degrees C. This gives a nice even heat (better than in a...
Definitely keep naked flames away . You don't need a double boiler / Bain Marie . Put your ingredients in a tin can . Stand the can in a pan . To the pan add...
Definitely keep naked flames away . You don't need a special double boiler / Bain Marie . Put your ingredients in a tin can . Stand the can in a pan . To the...
Hi Clive ! you are certainly right about the antiseptic qualities of cloves which help to prevent bacterial degradation of other vegetable oils and fats( that...
Hello everyone I am searching for the best spring as possible for the "unique" key of my traversos. From 1980 I was using very nice one sold by Glotin in Paris...
Jean-François, I order my springs from Windcraft in the UK https://www.windcraft.co.uk/index.html They have almost any spring you can imagine and offer quick...
Dear Colleagues, A brief note to let you know we have moved home, but only by three blocks. We are still in the heart of the small coastal town of Mendocino. ...
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Oct 5, 2006 9:26 pm
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Hello Everyone, I pretty much did as Rod suggests, with linseed oil and beeswax but I melted the beeswax in a glass bowl in the microwave (I was in a hurry),...
Hi Terry, A blast from the past... I am restoring a original Meyers 11 key flute, and have just encountered this sandwiched female slide. I thought that it...
... Oh dear, that was rather a while back. I'm sorry but I can't remember. It probably required turning off one of the rollovers, as these must have been...
Dear all, My regular renaissance flute quartet (TTTB)has a chance to expand to six in a few weeks time. I have plenty of 5 part stuff - especially good are...
Hi Carl Congratulations for this meeting of six Renaissance flute players; Very rare! In "Mellange de chansons thant des vieux autheurs que des modernes",...
... We can only envy you for being able to get all these people together. I think performing six part music on renaissance traversos was probably much more...
hello everyone. on the a.m.i.s. journal volume v-vi . 1979-80 there is an article by albert r. rice -the clarinet as described by lorents nicolai berg (1782)....
One that I'm selling, a quite nice G.A. Rottenburgh replica made by Jean-Luc Boudreau. The item number is 110046001303. http://tinyurl.com/yzaak5 Best regards,...
... For oiling with non-hardening oils like almond oil, the advice I gotten is that the bore should always be a bit oily, and for the amount I play, weekly...
Hello Michael, I now recommend simply rolling a paper towel around a thin dowel like a chop stick of pencil, then running the soft oil ( I like grape seed oil)...
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Oct 24, 2006 12:03 am
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Hi! I have bought an old German flute, in boxwood with horn rings. It looks pretty old, on the headjoint is the name I. Zehring - Verden. Verden is a town in...
Hello Rod, What is the minimum drying-out time you recommend for a flute that is being played every day for some hours, before doing this soft oiling ? thanks ...
Dear Charles, Thank you for your question! I feel that you can oil your flute within an hour of drying it out with a cloth swob. Let me add a little refresher...
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Oct 24, 2006 6:57 pm
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Anybody know the moisture components? I think that not only carbonic anhidrid we expire? (Matrix) Many components of the two powerfull main acids found in the...
... My experience in paint R&D teaches that this is also the case for hardened oils and some oil based resins (alkyds). ... Rod, did you ever look at cigar...
