Looking for "Diderot" arts & metiers extract i found the reference for these tools, i think these tools appeared before the reamers were created. Anybody has...
Colin, and fellow group members: Colin and I had a discussion about this very topic at my lesson on Tuesday morning. Although the amount of embouchure...
If like me ,a non-silver flute player/beginner, you would like to know about Whistle tones , the link below explains them and has a good video of them being ...
i actually find that when i have to play a boehm flute, i need to cover much more of the hole than i would do with a renaissance or baroque flute, simply,...
I recently posted an index by title/composer for the Laborde Chansonnier facsimile at http://www.undoulxregard.org/laborde/. I have now added one for the...
Dear Everybody, I would like to keep this message short but hope that the topic will have a long life. I believe that the pitch standards 415Hz and 392Hz are...
Can any silver flute player explain to me why the modern flute has such a large mouth hole? I have never witnessed a silver flute player do anything other than...
rod cameron
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May 4, 2008 11:03 pm
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Hello Rod, Speaking as a person who plays various kinds of transverse flutes, and teaches mainly modern flute, I'd say that the larger blowhole of modern...
Thank you, Lyon, For a very good overview in answering my question! You have broadened my understand. You are right, I have not seen anyone playing silver...
rod cameron
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May 5, 2008 1:09 am
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re: Albert's statement: Seems sort of sad that felt he had to say it but I find it quite believable that that is his experience. In the slight contact I've had...
Dear flute-maker friends! Yes, please do it! Just not 400 but 397,5, it is not a joke, my great Quantz-copy made by P. A. Dupre ist most convincing on that...
Hi Simon and Benedek Since I am quoted in Benedek's email, I must reply. I recognise I am myself a sort of Ayatolah for Renaissance flute pitch, since they are...
... made in one piece with no pitch flexibility. ... Dupre.pdf about the Renaissance flute pitches. ... German Originals work better at 408, and most French...
... It doesn't. The embouchure hole of most modern silver flutes is actually smaller than on a lot of nineteenth-century eight-keyed flutes and smaller than on...
Dear Simon 18th century flute makers made flutes with several corps de rechange to face any pitch situation. Let us enjoy they were facing situations when...
Dea Philipe, Luckily the present baroque pitch standard is only a minute part of the whole world. You are illustrating several of my points! Most of the many...
Dear Simon, You confirm my own experience, and I have written a number of postings over the years to encourage the same shift to a more baroque pitch, so I am...
rod cameron
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May 5, 2008 5:42 pm
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I normally just read, but every so often... I have a wood head for a silver Boehm flute made by Terry McGee. The embouchure hole is not only quite small, but...
Dear Simon and Rod Of course I agree that original pitches at 400 or 408 makes baroque flutes more attractive. But as a teacher in an Early Music departement I...
Simon Do you mean Quantz, GA Rottenburgh, Scherer, CA Grenser and others wasted time and money making wonderful flutes with 7 corps de rechange since only one...
Dear Philipe, The playing together of recorders and traversi I think should not decide what is a standard. The best possible copies of originals should. The...
Dear Philipe, The playing together of recorders and traversi I think should not decide what is a standard. The best possible copies of originals should. The...
Dear Simon, Whereas it is often the case that few of, say, seven corps de rechange on surviving original flutes are in good playing condition, it does not...
rod cameron
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May 6, 2008 6:58 pm
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Dear Rod, Of course you have done marvelous work, but obviously you are also aware of the original's differences in quality of the different joints. The...
... Hello Gino: I don't know, will be hard to play in E too.. The Partita serves when you are tired to study the Taffanel & Gaubert or Moyse methods Auguri, ci...
Go Benedek! and 397.5! (I know well your fantastic and wonderful Quantz concerto CD - but is it at 415 with Philippe's flute?) I too love the likes of A400,...
