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This flute has been sold.

This flute has been sold.

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(Also posted in Used Instruments Exchange ) This was my first real flute and it's a doozy! It's responsive, good volume, and beautiful tone, with Peter Noy's distinctive embouchure plate and bone blowing edge. It's gone through the hands of at least Patrick Jones and Jessie Driscoll who said "T...

This was my first real flute and it's a doozy! It's responsive, good volume, and beautiful tone, with Peter Noy's distinctive embouchure plate and bone blowing edge. It's gone through the hands of at least Patrick Jones and Jessie Driscoll who said "This is the best playing flute I ever owned&q...

My 5-key Peter Noy flute:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bejubi/al ... 0849900338

In traditional Irish music, for those out there who use keys, which F keys do you have? I'm considering not getting the long F key. I've been happy with the short F key thus far, but want to make sure I'm not missing anything.

Did this flute sell, Leo?

Bingo! That got me closer, Lucas. If I leave everything in inches and then convert to mm after the calculations are complete, I get closer. They're still a little different--0mm to 3mm after rounding, which makes me curious--but I'm much closer: Hole Size Tipple Flutomat ---- ---- ------ --------- R...

I used the defaults for "Inside Diameter" and "Wall Thickness" (0.824 and 0.113) since I'm using standard schedule 40-3/4" PVC.

I'm going to make a PVC flute and have a question about the Flutomat numbers vs. Doug Tipple's numbers. I think I might be reading something incorrectly in one or both locations. When I put the hole sizes that Doug Tipple uses in his article (http://tippleflutes.com/making-a-simple-irish-flute) into...