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Geoffrey Ellis wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:06 pm And to top it all off he is a genuinely kind and amiable person

That certainly is a plus.

If you do a search for Zac Zinger on YouTube you will find a wide range of videos showcasing his insane musical gifts. Zac has been play-testing flutes for me for the last five years or so (he also plays dizi, silver flute, saxaphone and heaven knows what else), and he collaborates with many equall...

Giant Steps on a Shakuhachi? How is this even possible? I'm going to quit music and take up a new hobby. Maybe farming dental floss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I8mFQYCPbA

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:44 pm
Spoke too soon; here we go:

https://squareoneflutes.com/pan-article-june-2007/

I leave it to the makers to make heads and tails of it. Way beyond my pay grade.

Same here. What he's saying sounds like it could make sense but I'm no acoustic engineer.

If I'm not mistaken, given a fixed perimeter a circle will have the maximum area. So I don't see the point in this either. Unless they're saying that a square tone hole will provide some other benefit than a circle with the same area.

And yeah, what Nano said about the open holes. That too.

The topic of square tone holes came up on the sax forum and someone posted this.

https://squareoneflutes.com/flutes/

I can wait to hear Terry McGee's analysis of this. I'm think that the cost of a re-pad is going to be a real drag.

It is a jungle out there. Myself and a few other makers have had the dubious distinction of having our good names hijacked by some shady company operating out of Cyprus. There are websites where you can buy my flutes (complete with photos of my work--much of it copied from the Irish Flute Store--an...

I'm curious about those Chinese flutes. A few brick-and-mortar music shops seem to sell them. (There was one in LA, if anyone in LA is willing to do an investigation.) I haven't seen any credible reviews of them. But if a Chinese factory can make clarinets, why not flutes? It's possible they could ...

The Forbes is a great flute, I've owned one. It's a large-holed Pratten style model and the low D will knock the paint off the walls with little effort. The only drawback for me was that the upper register didn't sound as sweet as a Rudall type flute which is what I have now (Glenn Watson 6-key). Th...

One thing to be careful of: there are a lot of Chinese made wooden Boehm flutes out there at attractive prices. I don't think they're as bad as the dreaded Pakistani "Irish" firewood flutes, but you get what you pay for.

Right, there's always the chance of the flute needing some setup or a repad if you buy used. Also beware of prices that are too good to be true. I just followed a scam here in the US where someone had posted a 1964 Selmer MK VI alto sax for $1800.00, and posted it in several cities. That's a $5,000....

Try to find someone locally who is selling a used Yamaha student flute. I've seen them around for anywhere from $250 to $350 USD. There are lots of cheap Chinese concert flutes on eBay and they look tempting but I would stay away from those for the reasons that Flutern listed above. Especially when ...

I know that George Torterelli fits that description in that he travels the festival circuit, grows his own bamboo, etc.. Not sure that he turned Pat onto bamboo flutes, however! I know he has provided Pat with some bamboo in the past, but I expect Pat was making bamboo flutes earlier than George. B...

People have done the composite thing with wood for flutes, as well. The flutes in this video were 3D printed with “80% plastic and 20% redwood”. https://youtu.be/vGqw9IsPL84 3D printing has come a long way. I just bought this Alto Sax mouthpiece from Windy City Woodwinds. It's printed from PLA, han...

... Anyone who owns one of Patrick Olwell's bamboo flutes has seen the Silverstripe variety. It grows down in Florida. It will grow other places, but it won't grow large enough to make flutes from it. I use it, but I have to source it from a grower in Florida. ... I have three bamboo flutes: Eb, D,...