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Cyberknight - thanks for your thoughts. Quick question: you mentioned ... zero experience or knowledge when it comes to designing or building instruments! My only experience ... should chime in here. The other option would be making the thing longer and just adding more and more ...

Wow, they have come a long way, haven't they. And I guess, at least ... the maths might get a little frightening. Or am I making too much of that? Designing that stuff in engineering software is actually pretty ...

Interesting post Walt! A lot of the issues you mention are examples of chambering ... vicinity. A study of antique instruments and flute making literature makes it clear that, historically, ... a bore profile and tone hole lattice, rather than designing from scratch. Some of the flutes we enjoy ...

Steve, I'm in the throes of designing my new Bb drumcorps fife, EMMETT model. The tuning issues are slowly resolving. Simplified rule: The more taper (greater ... the low notes pass muster on the tuning machine). By making incremental adjustments, a serviceable position can ...

"All of these design characteristics must be carefully considered and optimized to achieve good tuning of the ... on a flute. A skilled flute maker will take all of these factors into account when designing and building a flute. --- Okay, it's not definitive guidance, but it is interesting; ...

I am ignoring stopper position. I am designing a vertical flute. The embouchure hole is located in the ... the cork in the wrong place in a conventional flute, or making the same too big or too small in your design) your octaves ...

Hey Terry, thanks for the reply. I am ignoring stopper position. I am designing a vertical flute. The embouchure hole is located in the center of a transverse head that is joined to ...

... struggling to correct the tuning of the notes in my flute's third octave for a month or so. I built my a mathematical flute model in MathCad based ... A skilled flute maker will take all of these factors into account when designing and building a flute. --- Okay, it's not definitive guidance, but ...

I can’t find it now, but I did find this: https://hal.science/hal-00964988 ... that was essentially what we’ve been talking about designing here. The air feed was set volumetrically and ... There was no immediate indication of any of this making a diff when shifting modes of vibration but I’ll ...

Ah, great story, stringbed. Isn't life funny. You start out with ... expectations - in my case it was landing a dream job designing and making support electronics for cutting edge physical science research ...

(Disambiguation, when I write tone = sound/timbre pitch= frequency ... !! ) Thanks Paddler, that is very appreciated. When making or designing a flute, it often feels like all the responsibility is ...

Thanks for the link to those videos. Progress though: it ... hole further down so that it can be bigger, but designing it to be played with the little finger while ... central the bore is. This is now a practical way of making lots of flutes rather than just doing one or two, ...

If the card game "poker" could be renamed, then "Parameters" ... unheard. By the way, since you're in the process of designing whistles, I notice that every whistle design ... already be doing it, but then again, they were making violins before Stradivarius started making them, ...

For years, I've been buying reamers from Gammons in Manchester, ... When I'm considering a new bore, I prototype it by making a smooth core and molding resin around it. I use ... cutters. The point is to increase tooth load, but designing is tricky and the resulting surface is not as ...

For years, I've been buying reamers from Gammons in Manchester, ... When I'm considering a new bore, I prototype it by making a smooth core and molding resin around it. I use ... cutters. The point is to increase tooth load, but designing is tricky and the resulting surface is not as ...