Jon C. wrote:.......what you are saying is that with the tuning slide all the way in it is high pitched? This is how it is always done, that wasy when the flute is cold or your embouchure requires the tuning to be a little sharper, you can have a little adjustment. Normally, one would not have the tuning slide pushed all the way in. I usually make the slide so there is about 1/2" of slide showing, I mean if you are going to use silver, might as well let it shine!talasiga wrote:So is my Seery (blackwood body, delrin head/barrel) more 1860s American? Always about 448 unless I extend the slide, sometimes radically. Or is that because its generally warmer (even in winter) in my part of Australia than it is in Ireland where it was made?
Pardon my ignorance.
Thanks for your interest. I use an electronic chromatic tuner.Cork wrote: Seeing as Seery is a modern (as in the era of A=440 tuning) maker, I frankly was taken aback that your flute could be pitched so sharply, such that you could need to pull the tuning slide out so far. Indeed, my first thought was that you simply have been blowing too high against the embouchure's strike wall, which could account for such sharp tuning.
Therefore, as my question, have you tried matching your tuning against such as a tuning fork, or whatever tuning devise, while having the tuning slide at anywhere near a more normal position, perhaps as at somewhere near upwards of several millimeters out from the head joint?
It's not my point here to be critical, here, but I simply am curious, please.
On this flute I like to roll head inward such that the far edge of the embouchure is in line with the centre axis of the finger holes (which are in line finger holes). This is something I learned in this forum and I think it was largely due to Terry McGee's input.
This flute was examined by a prominent flute maker and the same phenemenon was observed, as I recall. It plays well and when I play it my wife always tells me it is one of her favourite flutes.
I have noticed that on a cold, moist winter's day the flute requires much less slide extension for to make A440 and hence my earlier question about Irish climate V subtropical East Coast ozzie climate.
(BTW, you can hear my Irish flute on track 2 in my signature. I know thats not Irish Music but Hippy Dippy Lounge stuff but maybe your expertise may detect something. Of course that was two years ago and my tone has decveloped since then - on most days that is!)