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Hi All, I have the following for sale by auction on Ebay:- Goldie Low D Chieftain V3 Low D Custom Brass + Aluminium Chieftain High D Eric Segret's Open Low D Whistle Sorry forgot to add the links to the above whistles... 1. Goldie http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colin-Goldie-Low-D-Whistle-Non-Tuneable-/3...

Hi All,

I have the following for sale by auction on Ebay:-

Goldie Low D
Chieftain V3 Low D Custom Brass + Aluminium
Chieftain High D
Eric Segret's Open Low D Whistle

Hello Kim

Great, thanks for your reply. Hope you are able to update more about the Tocco when you have played on it more

I didn’t want to post this under the “Environmentally Friendly” thread because in this review I won’t be addressing the environmental issue. The Guo Tocco flute is a student level Boehm-style polymer flute from Guo of Taiwan. I have no connection to that company or any dealer. My Reason for Buying ...

Interesting! Where to get this sort of "recorder" ocarinas? I'll tell you a secret about photos on the web (ok, it's hardly a secret). Images are many times linked from their original location, which in this case happens to be the website for the maker of those ocarinas. Right click on th...

i am wondering about a whistle style instrument (with a fipple). thoughts? I guess after thinking about your question for a while I figured maybe I really do not understand what you are really looking for, especially the fipple bit. And I thought of a few of ocarinas I have seen fashioned in the sa...

Hi Doug

Ok, thanks....everything is much clearer now.

Yes, my flute with the vent holes and being so long over 700mm is really quite heavy.

Onewheeldave

Ok, I see what Doug means now, thanks

Hi Doug

Thank you very much for the many pointers you have given me.

Just a question-I am not sure what you mean by the need to undercut the embouchure side of the tone holes to bring the second octave notes up to pitch....what is undercutting?

NLR

Hi TinTin

Thanks for your comments...you mean shorten the flute at the first vent hole after R3?

I think I will next try Pete Kosel's Flutomat calculator without the two bottom vent holes....

Hello All I was lucky to find a machining shop nearby my office to make me an aluminium tube flute based on dimensions supplied by me using Pete Kosel's Flutomat. For a photo of my flute, please click the link below... http://www.flickr.com/photos/67353684@N03/?saved=1 Overall length = 713mm Externa...

Following all the advice given here, except buying a Low G (thanks very much to everyone!)...I am pleased to have made some progress...with pipers grip, now can quite comfortably play the scales B, A, G and F, and even in no particular order... no squeaky noises except once in a while when I have bl...

Hi benhall.1

My flute is the orchestral flute (yes, sometimes referred to as the Boehm flute).

Ha ha...yes, not in that order....I am also learning to play the concert C flute, and sometimes I start with the G scale first....then A, then B...then random....that's why

Hi Folks

Thanks for all the advice given. Yes I don't think its any problem with the whistle, its just me...definitely I will try out the exercises suggested...hopefully there will be some improvement...but for starters. back to G, A and B first!