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It comes right through for me, Arbo.

Nelson

It’s after midnight, the wind is howling and whirling. I just came down from the barn (on the hill side up the mountain behind the house). Put my horse and his pony commodore in the same stall built back into the hill. Big stall, but they stay warm together. They got grain, hay, salt, and water and ...

It’s after midnight, the wind is howling and whirling. I just came down from the barn (on the hill side up the mountain behind the house). Put my horse and his pony commodore in the same stall built back into the hill. Big stall, but they stay warm together. They got grain, hay, salt, and water and ...

Pay attention to what John C says about tone quality and wall thickness. A tone hole is not just a hole. It is a pipe just like the bore is a pipe. The bore from the tone hole down and the tone hole form a branch. The effect of the tone hole depth and diameter were studied by Wolfe in 1983 so that t...

I do not know how I would get along without finale. Some of the important features are: 1) You can download mp3 files and turn them into a score. This includes multiple instruments. 2) You can have a pointer point to the notes as they are played. Fast or slow. 3) You can change the key you are in an...

I wish I would have had an input before too many of you measured. This is very valuable to me because I can check the validity of my equations in http://www.flutephysics.com . I need one other piece of info: the inside diameter at the beginning and end of each section. For example, the i.d.of my fir...

Rama, how do you know the concrete story is invalid. Have you done research on this or are you just a ramar manger? Have you done spectrial analysis and established the Fourier components of the sound from concrete flutes? Have you done mathamaticanal analysis of the behavior of flutes as in http://...

The easiest person to scam is a scammer. I have 72 flutes worth $75 each. They will all retail for $500. I will sell them on credit if the buyer sends me $2 each as a down payment. Send this message back in reply.

I have 2 flutes with 2 Bb touches, one right and one left hand. I'll send a picture when I get my camara together. One is a Czech flute that Jon C. showed a picture of a couple months ago in some thread. The other flute is very similar and was made in Eastern Europe also. The right hand touch is nex...

I have a copy of that flute, Spittle. Johnny Gallagher made it. When he worked in Cammeron's shop (or maybe after he moved to WV). He went to Baltimore MD and spent some time measuring the flute. Also Jeanie Hoover (on this forum) has one. Her's is blackwood. Mine is cocobolo with a silver lip plate...

A lot of my older friends who were in WWII are dieing off. I have to pipe a tattoo at their funeral: "Pass In Review", "Amazing Grace", and "Taps" on the Highland bagpipes. It has been 95 degrees F and humidity 90%. That is not common in West Virginia, as the folks who ...

Hi I.D.-10 T. There is slop in the knee joint of each one that probably takes care of expansion. I got the same thing after 40 years of soccer.

Nelson

Just for you, I.D.10-T, I have not gotten into the details of changing notes fast, but in general, it is the "Q" of the flute. The Q is the ratio of the energy stored in the flute divided by the energy lost per cycle (dimensionless). It is also the "ring time" of a note--the time...

Hi Tom, I am writing a book on flute physics. The beginning of which is on http://www.flutephysics.com . When I write a technical book I put it on the net as I am writing so I can get feedback from others in the field. The part I have up on the net now is the basics that require some knowledge of tr...

Hi Steve, you must of gone to D&E college. Fred Schmoltz was the soccer coach there. I ran a youth club of a few thousand kids in Fairfax VA. I wrote books on how to teach kids to play soccer (google me). For that camp, some of the kids bicycled to Elkins from DC. They road bikes along the C&...