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... which gives a warmer tone and absorbs moisture (condensation buildup is bad for stability of tone). These pipes are lightweight and sound quite like wooden pipes. https://www.maclellanbagpipes.com/revelation Which Delrin flutes have you tried? Since you haven’t played flute in decades? Right, ...

Not OP, but this post has definitely helped me settle on Copely flutes. FYI for anyone else interested, he has a current wait time of about 10 weeks. Not too bad considering how popular the demand is.

... a reminder, before we get to smug about our nice blackwood or boxwood flutes that no flute is 100% safe from the ravages of moisture. (Well, maybe ... and sound waves go to die. You can only wonder at how it got to be that bad.

It works spot on with chromatic open hole Boehm flutes and wooden flutes - Wikipedia is inaccurate and needs updating. Antoine ... and the link. I'd certainly like to give it a go, and I've got a couple of bad prototype flutes that I could drill extra holes in to do the initial experiments ...

... desktop keyboard (laptop keys aren't too bad) for more than a few minutes. More than that ... like to try one first. Or, buy a used one in good condition. I could even possibly trade flutes to someone that is interested. Mine is in really ...

... folk flute today to oil it. I had not oiled it in a while. I know, BAD! I have been dealing with a lot of health issues over the past couple ... nothing to worry about. He actually does not polish the bores of his flutes to a high degree and it actually helps the sound in some cases (I ...

... of factors). Not as common as the Boeham flutes, but the tabor pipe, txistu, willow flute, ... get to be a bit complicated. Yes, that's a good point. You could get a fully chromatic 2 octaves ... third octave on an Irish flute sounds pretty bad, unless you have keys (and even then, few people ...

... with half-covers? The answer is no. We have bad sound! - On elliptical holes, we maintain the ... hole), when it's necessary. On half of my flutes (quenas and quenillas), "half" ... so even when half-holing there's still a good size of opening left, and all the notes work ...

I've seen and heard reports of makers who saturate their newly made flutes in none drying oils, and even some who have tried using vacuum infusion ... that myself at once stage, but then decided that it would probably be a bad idea because with shrinkage or changes in temperature the uncured oil ...

I've seen and heard reports of makers who saturate their newly made flutes in none drying oils, and even some who have tried using vacuum infusion ... that myself at once stage, but then decided that it would probably be a bad idea because with shrinkage or changes in temperature the uncured oil ...

... over the past year I have mainly played two flutes, we'll call them flute A and flute B. I've ... more focused embouchure to get it sounding good, and if I play flute A for too long I do in ... "good" is lower, and I fall back on bad habits. Anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt, ...

... over the past year I have mainly played two flutes, we'll call them flute A and flute B. I've ... more focused embouchure to get it sounding good, and if I play flute A for too long I do in ... "good" is lower, and I fall back on bad habits. Anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt, ...

... your embouchure improving overall. I have had flutes that were more difficult to play and they ... my embouchure because they were actually good flutes, but I've played bad flutes that were hard to play and they really didn't ...

... holes in it. I now realise that the stretch issues with such long flutes and whistles could be reduced by making them chromatic too, so I'm ... switch playing algorithms between them. How would the stretch be not as bad when you add extra holes for chromatics? That doesn’t seem to make sense. ...

... to remove a support point when you are using the note. That is pretty bad. You keep telling me that it isn't a problem as if you think I haven't ... a Boehm flute for ITM despite ready availability of inexpensive Boehm flutes. Many reasons influence our choice of instruments, and the Boehm flute ...