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BlueSalmon wrote: Here's a keyless one by Geoffrey Ellis in D: (played by Blayne Chastain)
https://soundcloud.com/earth-tone-flute ... na-leabhar

This one sounds really good!

I personally don't like the placement of the last finger hole on most cylindrical flutes though. Too far apart from the others

Matt , while I agree cylindricals are usually limited for Irish music due to the second octave tuning, you may not have heard the tapered-head wooden ones, which are a whole different thing, IMO. Before I heard them, I thought the same thing you do, and I felt very strongly. (...) Totally agree... ...

Well Terry, the flutomat calculator allowed me to create a couple of decent sounding bansuri... In tune, but not very good sounding. The PVC material, the available diameters and my skills as an embouchure cutter limited the quality. With reduced tone holes to create something closer to an Irish flu...

(...) Does that help? Not if you're talking about tunes in G, I suppose ... but then, that might be the answer: look for tunes either already in D, or transpose them to D. Problem solved! :) Actually there a re a lot of tunes in Swedish music that use minor keys with major 7th, so for example, you'...

(Steampacket, it's super nice of you, but I actually understand Swedish a little bit... My brother lives in Stockholm with his wife and two French-Swedish kids.)

That said, this will probably be handy for people interested in Nordic music

Thank you very much! apparently, I'll have to practice my Svensk...

I really love Swedish music... To keep its very specific sound, I'd recommend adding keys to your flute. You really need those 7ths

Do you have a source of (notes or abc) sheet music for Swedish traditional ? I'd be very interested

Wow, thanks ! I didn't know her at all...

I really love the style

I use the same "combined" grip on my flutes, especially the ones with big holes. But I have classical "all fingers curved" on my small holed Rudall and French flute. I just don't manage (I tried a lot) to keep the classical grip on large holed flutes. To be honest I don't really ...

One important detail: 19th century flutes were made with the intent of being played with the Eb key on all notes in the first two octaves, except D and E . That's a big difference with Boehm flutes... All methods are very clear about that: no Eb key with E. Also in the third octave, the Eb key is ex...

http://steampacket.ownit.nu/Rudall%20Rose%20Carte%20flute%20register.html Thank you very much, that's great! You can add mine: No 15 Piazza, Covent Garden, London, 821. Cocuswood, 8 saltspoon keys with purse pads, reinforcing metal pins through the blocks. Low C & C# with pewter plugs, small ho...

Matt this is a bona fide Rudall & Rose flute. I've contacted the lady selling the flute about the stamp in order to verify, but I can see enough of the stamp to say that the address is correct for the given serial number: 15 Piazza St - Covent Garden - London. Check Robert Bigio's fine book if ...

Has no one noticed the description doesn't give the Piazza address for the maker's mark? used to be you would all be skewering the poor fellow listing it. This would also be the first extant Rudall with a banded embouchure.....btw. According to the Rudall & Rose Catalogue, that is. just sayin. ...

I remember Tom Aebi used some kind of foam to pad his flutes. I don't know if he still does it. I think I'll stick to clarinet pads... if a flute is not worth spending 20 € on pads, it's probably not worth spending my time either. I saw another way of doing a quick and dirty but efficient repad, wit...

I placed a ridiculously low bet both to be reminded by the ebay app of what's happening on this sale, and in case nobody sees it... Also the stamp on the flute is not really visible on the pictures, and if it actually reads "Rundall", it means it is one of those "Imposition against th...