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Interesting that the curve seems to be in a good direction for a right handed player. I would think that if the curve went the other way it might cause the flute to rotate while playing.

Sorry to hear that Janmarie! I will have to go through the same thing in the relatively near future. One week is nothing. I'd just kick back, relax, do what the doctor says, and let the healing take its proper course. One week is not going to compromise your embouchure, so don't compromise your heal...

The pain started about five days ago. I rested and it got better, but then I had a couple of gigs and it's getting worse. I've stopped playing entirely. I've played for over a decade, often an hour a day, without this difficulty--till now. I'm thinking hard about weight lifting, though I've been do...

It would be helpful to know how long the pain has been there and wether or not it's getting worse.

Bob

but when watching master players closely I notice that, even at blazing speeds, they execute each high D in the "first finger up" position. I don't think that's entirely true. If you look at this ever famous clip of Matt Molloy playing the Bucks of Oranmore you can see in the 3rd part he ...

When teaching, I suggest people to use oxx xxx as their sole fingering for middle D for this reason: playing crans on middle D is much easier with the c# hole open. With c# closed you will most certainly end up at the second harmonic of low D after playing a cut, especially if the cut is played wit...

It took a while to find the right flute for me and now that I have it's time to say goodbye to all my other flutes that I don't really play anymore. I have 2 nice ones listed currently in the UIE:

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all the best,
Bob

The Forbes Flute is sold. The M&E is still available. I have finally begun the process of saying farewell to some of the instruments that I’m not playing anymore. Both of these flutes are great players and virtually maintenance free which makes them the ideal instruments to have in the event of ...

Bamboo bread box--this one? http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Donuts-Bamboo-stylish-Acrylic/dp/B00L89E6S4/ref=sr_1_9?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1411000988&sr=1-9&keywords=bamboo+bread+box Thanks for the idea. I've been thinking about a humidifier solution; this looks good. Yes, that's the o...

Just a little inspiration for those of us in the dry winter zones that would like a change from the old "tupperware container with a loose fitting lid" thing. I wanted to have my flute live in my bedroom this winter so I started searching for a nice looking container that would not empty m...

Not an answer to any of your specific questions but ornamentation can be sacrificed for speed. So, if you can't play it as fast as you need/want to with ornamentation then you can drop the ornamentation in order to keep up with everyone else. Davie Migoya mentioned this in a thread a while back and ...

I think that the small variations in construction are actually a plus within the same style of flute -- that's the way actual flutes are made that people feel they hear a difference between, so it seems like a good target for a test. My guess would be that those small variations would either be ran...

Now, if a thief, of sorts, broke into your home and replaced your flute with a visually identical flute He'd have to be able to copy my breath smell on the head joint and i wouldn't wish that on any theif :lol: What would be interesting would be to line the bores of wooden flutes with a thin layer ...

Thanks Terry for shedding light on this post :thumbsup: I guess the debate will alway go on as it does in the field of psychology where there are many good theories that are backed up by some hard evidence but peole will still believe what they want to believe and psychometrics can't account for eve...

On the other hand you might be able to get past the "two identical flutes" problem by creating multiple identical flutes of varying woods. I was wondering if a study could be conducted using multiple flutes made of 2 different materials and using Terry McGee's raised lip plate head design...