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I have dry fingers in winter which can make sealing the flute tone holes tricky. I noticed that some Irish players lick the fingers before starting a tune. This is a Seamus Tansey & Jim Murray video where they both lick fingers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1m1KMtIjWA My question is what do ...

Terry thanks for the link on how to get the dark tone. I found it very useful, I did see an improvement to my tone. However, I did not clearly explain my issue in the original post. The problem is the overall tuning of the flute is too low even with the slide all the way in. I used the low D note as...

I am having problems with flute tuning. I have several Irish style wood & Delrin flutes all are behaving the same way. If I play a low D, I should get 294 Hz (A:440 reference) on my electronic tuner. However I get 285 Hz even with the slide all the way in, which is 54 cents off tune. I have chec...

Anybody know Thomas Johnsons email address? The address on the website does not work. I have tried to contact the address on several PC's.

The Website is:
http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46103557/index.html

The site is very interesting.

John