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I'm looking for a celltic flute. A keyed one would be great, but I'm also in the market for a keyless. I have a 6-key Doyle that I might consider selling. It's his traditional model, not the Celtic one, though, although my understanding is that they are acoustically the same. Feel free to send me a...

Are you looking for ANY Doyle or do you have desiderata (number of keys, wood)?

I agree with tstermitz and jayhawk, but I also play fully keyed flutes. I play a lot of music outside of the Irish tradition and I use keys all the time. I definitely would use an F natural key, but do you use both the long and the short one? Or is there one F key that you always use while the other...

jiujuyipai wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:53 am Does anyone know how to order Pol Jezequel?

You can contact him by email: poljez@hotmail.com

Glad to see the forum is back and running. I've been missing it! Thanks to the admin team for fixing the issue. Looking at the error message, it must not have been fun...

The clarinet maker Backun went one step further and on some models they make rings out of carbon fiber. Here are the rings on mine: lower section of the body: https://flic.kr/p/2pCiGuB Bell: https://flic.kr/p/2pCpNb6 Personally I quite like it. I think it could be very pretty on a mopane flute. Is t...

They've been going for $2000-2300 lately on the Irish Flute Store, and Blayne usually aligns with the maker's price for a new instrument, so it must be somewhere around that.

I totally agree with Eric, it's really important to play on an instrument that you find rewarding. (Your notion of "rewarding" might change over time.) Here's an additional element for your consideration: a poorly developed embouchure will make you run out of air much more quickly, no matt...

This is a problem I suffered from for a while. I suppose there can be several causes, but for me it was the fact that I was blowing too much across , as opposed to into , the embouchure hole in the second octave. This resulted in a sound that was both sharp and shrill, especially around high A and B...

Tom Aebi has been experimenting with Juma lately (a "resin based material", per their website), and he made at least one keyed piccolo and one flute headjoint out of it. He's a very flexible person, so if it's technically possible (cf. Terry's comments about block mounts and delrin), I sup...

Julien: Why did Chris Norman think your flute's embouchure was unusual? I'm starting to wonder too, seeing that yours is almost identical to mine, and bearing in mind that mine was revoiced and has a repaired crack, which might have extended the short axis ever so slightly. I'd be curious to know h...

Hi paddler, My Rudall & Rose #3934 (Patent Head) has a fairly round embouchure. Chris Norman commented that it was unusual and that it might have been a special order. The embouchure hole was revoiced by Patrick Olwell, after repairing a crack that went through it, so I don't to what extent it s...

Thanks paddler, your explanation about the shortened head on a lower scaled body makes sense to me and seems to match my experience with this flute. The headjoint Jay Ham made for this flute (and that I'm now using on my Rudall & Rose) is longer than the original. Congratulations on winning this...

Interesting! That certainly does seem quite definitive, but I am surprised, and a bit confused, particularly about the idea that your flute would have a flat foot and a sounding length for high pitch tuning that is supposedly too short. If the scale length is shorter than it should be for A=440 hz,...

So, it seems to be an open question about whether this one will be HP or good at modern pitch. I'd be interested to hear from owners of later model Rudall Rose Carte (or Rudall Carte) flutes, what the SL (with slide fully closed) is for flutes that play well at modern pitch. Just 2 data points, but...