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Thanks for the tip about using a bottle cork. I happened to have an unopened bottle of Sandeman port in the house so I opened it and the cork looks great on an antique Metzler flute......I haven't tried playing it yet because I cant stand any noise at all today........

I cant say I have played the Venova at a lot of sessions, but I have dragged it out of the bag a few times to play slower tunes.....Marches and slow waltzes etc. I think it sounds lovely and it is basically a soprano sax in C. Real antique melody C saxophones are notoriously out of tune and I dont t...

Casey, I regularly play a cylindrical bansuri in Bb and it is quite hard to get used to reaching the huge 6th fingerhole but it can be done. All I can say is it is a relief to go back to a D flute afterwards. Have you seen the keys on the Yamaha Venova saxophone. This has mostly open holes with a sp...

I think a lot of us buy antique 8 keyed flutes because we want to use the bottom 2 keys. If these are positioned so that they can be reached easily, the E flat key is hard to keep down with the pinky. It seems easier on a Boehm flute. I have been tempted on occasion to file an undercut in the R3 hol...