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... flutes. Each for 400 plus shipping. 1) A Bernolin resin Rottenburgh at 415. I bought it new in 2020 or so for around 500+ USD and it got some use but is in very good condition ... play more, so it's time to clean house. and 2) a Mollenhauer single key in 440 (exactly like the one ...

... I still do like that Aulos though. Might still get one anyway. A Bernolin might be better but also costs twice as much. An Aulos I could get ... highly recommend ordering from Japan. Mine was about $250USD shipped and it came in under three weeks. Western sellers started around $400USD ...

... Something that might in fact work on other keyless flutes with a little practice. I still do like that Aulos though. Might still get one anyway. A Bernolin might be better but also costs twice as much. An Aulos I could get for around 240 €.

... on the earlymusicstore site. Same size holes and embouchure. I do like it and am thinking of ... on and playing that one for a long time. The Mollenhauer is a different beast as you might imagine. ... around as a second, at least for a while. The Bernolin and Norman are much more like each other. ...

My Bernolin (415Hz Delusse with Palanca-style embouchure) is sharper opposite the lip than at the sides (where it's rounded off), but not a razor edge. It's clearly been shaped with care. It's also a much better instrument ...

Maybe molding and not machining is the right way for resins ? Moulding will always be more limiting than ... machined one, but the reverse is not true. I wonder how sharp the blowing edge of the Bernolin is ? My Bernolin (415Hz Delusse with Palanca-style embouchure) is sharper opposite ...

... you for sharing this information about the Mollenhauer traverso. Yours must be like the one ... section). 440Hz, large embouchure hole and slightly offset 3rd and 6th finger holes ? If ... continue to explore the possibilities of the Bernolin, until you are really sure you don't like ...

Hello Again, I got an email from the Mollenhauer expert on the historical flutes. She ... the turn of the century (meaning 2000, that is) and had made them since the 60s, so this flute is ... in this thread I might throw in that I got a Bernolin resin Rottenburgh at 415 at the beginning ...

... you look at a variety of duct flutes (whistles and recorders are the only ones I'm familiar with) ... a lot of variation, from the very open-voiced Mollenhauer modern alto, where the labium sits near ... windway with a considerable gap below it, to a Bernolin Stanesby copy which has an only slightly ...