Flashmail Hi Jeannie Although it's difficult to answer by email to your problem, here is a tip: I have been teaching the baroque flute to many modern flutists...
Wow! Sounds terrific!!! As a flutemaker in training (at Newark College in the UK) I would love to know, about your "inverted scanner" and/or in general HOW you...
Dear Eva, I made my own set of plexiglass (or perspex, as it's called in the UK) discs to fit on the end of an 1/8" brass rod. I made them in the 70's with a...
Mary Kirkpatrick
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Mar 1, 2008 2:19 pm
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Oh, sorry! I meant to say verniers: Dear Eva, I made my own set of plexiglass (or perspex, as it's called in the UK) discs to fit on the end of an 1/8" brass...
Mary Kirkpatrick
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Mar 1, 2008 2:53 pm
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Kim Pineda asks: "Perhaps if modern instrument groups keep going higher in their pitch, we'll be able to play around 400. How many Hz will that be for a whole...
Dear Jeanie, Let me share what works for me. I turn the 3rd joint out a little; the holes don't have to be in line like a modern flute. I turn the 4th joint in...
Jed, I will bet that the flexibility of your embouchure, after so many years of performing and teaching, will have allowed you to hook into the piano pitch and...
rod cameron
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Mar 1, 2008 6:11 pm
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Thanks for the responses. I will try some of the suggestions. I'm trying to relax and take it easy for a bit in the length of my practice sessions. Thanks...
Hi all I have a good wide peasant hand! but short fingers, and my RH 5th finger is (I am told by a doc friend) un-naturally short, not reaching as far as the...
Put a silver modern flute on the table beside a traverso, and take a look. One is like a broom handle, with a hole down the middle. The other looks like a...
rod cameron
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Mar 2, 2008 1:24 am
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Philippe & Jeannie ....... Chris Krueger just gave a masterclass in my Studio this past weekend and he mentioned (once again) holding (balancing) the flute...
Eva, Thank you for your postings, and I wish you the very best in your chosen vocation to study flute-making. First, regarding bore measurements, any wood...
rod cameron
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Mar 2, 2008 2:12 am
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Beth, Phillipe, and Rod, Thanks so much for your replies. I probably have been trying to hold the traverso like a Boehm flute. I'll try shifting the balance to...
Hello all: Good topic, I think that wooden flutes are better balanced than metal ones. The old constructors of wooden flutes discovered the needs of having...
Jeanie, Good luck with that! I know very little about the silver flute, but I do know that in making the transition to the traverso, many modern flute players...
rod cameron
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Mar 3, 2008 6:25 am
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I made that transition many years ago and found myself doing just that. I found, however, that some notes are just not right (and different on my two flutes),...
Time does fly when you play early flutes. I was in the audience for the fine recital, and also heard the story (apparently the dog survived the flute-eating...
Wise move, Kim! So you can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks! best Rod Roderick Cameron PO Box 438 10580 Williams Street Mendocino, CA 95460, USA ...
rod cameron
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Mar 3, 2008 7:49 pm
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Dear Rod The Jane Bowers article was published in 1977 in J.A.M.I.S. Journal of American Musical Instrument Society. About balance, have any of you noticed...
Philippe, Would you also consider your lip as part of the hold? I think of a tripod support from lip to LH index then back to LH thumb. I started playing...
Hi Dennis yes of course you are right! First of all you pinch the flute by left hand, tone-holes opened... You present it to your lips and blow and try to get...
Dennis, You mention a tight spring as possibly being part of my problem. I have two traversos--one with a tight spring, and the other with a looser one. I had...
Hi Forumsters, I am looking for Böhm's (1855) arrangement for flute and pianoforte of "Der Lindenbaum" from Schubert's Winterreise (Vienna 1827), op. 89/5. ...
Hello everyone I own an old R&R 8-key cocuswood flute and it has something I would call an elliptical mouth hole. The thing is that it´s much harder to blow...
... From: hoovorff To: earlyflute@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:53 PM Subject: [earlyflute] Re: Centre of balance on the traverso Also,...
Dear Jim, There is a modern edition in Wiener Querflöten Edition - UE 16996 : Schubert, Six Lieder arranged by Theobald Böhm. Der Lindenbaum is one of the 6....
One note for balance and thumb issues> On a four section flute I turn the right hand considerably in towards me, so that the holes from th left hand section...
