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I just felt like sharing my chuffitude at having finally put a stake in the ground for a full 8-key lefty from George Ormiston. It's wood though, and I wish it were delrin, but he makes left-handed flutes with a C foot, which is wonderful to me. I'd originally thought about it when someone here was ...

One thing you'll want to keep in mind as a Boehm player -- especially one with small hands -- is that you'll probably want to use what's called a "piper grip" on the bottom hand where you cover the holes not with the tips of your fingers but with the middle joints. If you google the term &...

"It's an antique-style wooden flute, what orchestra flutes used to look like in the 1800s before the silver sticks were invented. Sometimes it's called an Irish flute because it got absorbed into Irish folk music for the past century or so." That's not too much to say in response, and usua...

Play slowly. That's mostly it. Listen to the tune in your head as you play it slowly, and "hear" the next note in your head before you play it ... then play it and noodle it a bit until it sounds right. I know that's annoying as a response, but that's basically the cure -- play and practic...

Started with Irish tunes since that's the gateway onto a SS flute * You hand even an Irish flute to an Italian and eventually opera's gonna get blown out of it. There is no Irish flute. Unless it's actually Irish or at least playing Irish music. I hate the term! Which is why I made the point to cal...

Started with Irish tunes since that's the gateway onto a SS flute, but I rapidly headed off to opera and Medieval plainchant. The opera was inevitable* but the plainchant surprised even me.

* You hand even an Irish flute to an Italian and eventually opera's gonna get blown out of it.

Coming at this problem as a pianist, I tend to think Taubman technique, which relies a lot on using rotational movements in the forearm to accomplish things instead of doing quite so much by lifting the fingers individually up and down. It has its detractors (there are flat-earthers, for pete's sake...

In my .signature -- mostly a Copley Delrin, 6 key. However, I do keep my M&E keyless assembled and next to my bed.

Why haven't orchestral or jazz players used anything but the boehm system in the last hundred or so years? Part of the reason why the Boehm flute was invented was because orchestras were getting HUGE in the 1800s, and the SS flute is a bit darker and maybe a better chamber instrument whereas the Bo...

Similar experience to everyone else -- bought a Hall to have something to noodle on, then got myself a Tipple D. (I now have two others.) The Tipple D was a bit of a stretch on my bottom hand although I have fairly large piano hands. The Hall has never been manageable, and I regret getting it althou...

Just wanted to pop in and say hello to everyone after having vanished for a bit. Still here, still fluting away although I've been seduced by 12th century liturgical music lately (Hildegard natch), including learning to read the very old musical notation. The stuff's mostly modal and hence well-suit...

I've got a pistol case for mine as well, and I can attest that it's not hard to fly with it, either. In January, I had to do a lot of flying for work (from my origin city to San Jose, then to New Orleans, and then back home) with two flights between each city, so that was a total of six flights, and...

Mmmm, I'm just a newbie, but I tend to lift my bottom ring finger when it's not needed. My pinky seems to stabilize the flute fine just by itself, and there is a slight change in intonation that annoys me when I leave the ring finger down where it isn't needed. That's not to say that I don't use laz...

Fortunately they were able to find a good image of Flinder's flute, a typical English boxwood 6-key of the time ... Well now, I'm curious! A lover of flutes and cats: the good captain Flinders just got even better in my estimation. :-) Update: Found it here! http://www.colonialdance.com.au/matthew-...

Possibly the issue is more of maker not being a willing to work on an existing flute, but to build a complete left-handed instrument. Maurice Reviol probably woudn't shy from keying an existing flute, or making only a foot. It's a fully left-handed 6-key, though -- he just didn't do the articulated...