This would be a ineresting design for a metal Conical flute

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This would be a ineresting design for a metal Conical flute

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Looks like the Clinton Flute for India that Terry talks about on his website...I still want one, but no one so far has been inclined to send me one for free.

I think it would be fun to try out.

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Jayhawk wrote:Looks like the Clinton Flute for India that Terry talks about on his website...I still want one, but no one so far has been inclined to send me one for free.

I think it would be fun to try out.
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This is made by Auguste Buffet, jeune Paris, it is the french version. I wonder who came up with it Clinton or Buffet?


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Here is the Clinton version
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Why do all the holes of this flute have the same (seemingly) diameter? :-?
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The Clinton flute had a unique mount for the keys, compare it to the normal looking pin mount of the French flute.

http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/clint-India.htm
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These are lovely flutes, and I could sit here for hours admiring them.

However, in terms of a modern, A=440 version, apparently it could be a matter of just how many people could be willing to lay out, say, a few thousand dollars to buy one, to thereby create a market for such a thing.

Anybody?
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If one could secure one for a short time engineering drawings would be a simple matter.

I say send it off to China.

I've had great things done for me over there.
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I've often wondered how hard it would be to take an old Boehm flute head and attach a curtain rod with some holes punched in the right places.

Defiantly would not look as nice as those conical flutes though, but it would be metal and use a simple system of fingering.
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Hey Jon,

I found this one at the DMC while searching Austrian flutes:

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Thought ya might like it! :D

Those conical silver flutes look like Boehms that went on an extreme crash diet! :lol:

See Loren is not the only one who gets post highjacked! :P

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Jon - that's interesting that a French maker came up with a similar flute. Maybe Terry knows who came up with the idea first.

Now that I know it's French, that solves the 6 key mystery.

If anyone cares and has spares of these flutes about the house, I'd prefer the Clinton (I miss the C and C# keys), but I'd take the Buffet if nothing else is available.

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It's a beauty, Jordan, but for me it simply doesn't have the same appeal as the above two models do, for it is just too complicated, and lacks the simplicity of the other two.

But thanks for showing it!
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That thing has more keys than a head janitor.
14 keys can some one name them all?
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the question is how these sound?
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I.D.10-t wrote:That thing has more keys than a head janitor.
Wow

Can some one name them all?
Some of them are truly bizarre -- it looks as though there's an Eflat actuated by the left index finger.

Also, it looks like two Cnat keys, RH1 and LH1 or 2. Is the second one possibly bigger diameter so that it's a C#/D trill?

What about that one up almost on the barrel? D-D# or D-E trill?
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Jayhawk wrote:Looks like the Clinton Flute for India that Terry talks about on his website...I still want one, but no one so far has been inclined to send me one for free.

I think it would be fun to try out.

Eric
I think so, too. I think its way cool.
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