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by david_h
Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:11 am
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Oil Question
Replies: 10
Views: 1453

Re: Oil Question

What is this thing about vitamin E in the oil? It's an oil soluble antioxidant. The idea is that the oil goes rancid due to oxidation. Storing it in a dark bottle, in the 'fridge, and ideally in a bottle filled to the top, are also done to reduce oxidation. Mine has never gone rancid, but I have ne...
by david_h
Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:53 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Here's something that you can spend a ton of money on for no good reason
Replies: 8
Views: 382

Re: Here's something that you can spend a ton of money on for no good reason

If it allows him the engineer a bigger hole - with a key that seals and unseals as effectively as on a circular hole - I can see that ought to be an advantage. As for the rest "seems to make sense" is not enough for me. I'd need an analysis by a wind instrument acoustician. The effective l...
by david_h
Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:10 am
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Does an easy-to-play flute lead to a lazy or poorly developed embouchure?
Replies: 16
Views: 1506

Re: Does an easy-to-play flute lead to a lazy or poorly developed embouchure?

I followed the advice from here to start on a not-too-challenging flute. It served me well. After a while I followed the advice to also get a G flute (a low-cost Tipple) for a beneficial embouchure challenge.
by david_h
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)
Replies: 35
Views: 1741

Re: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)

For the lower octave with the end of the tube open (so not fully closed fingering) except part from the top hole (C#) I just get a veiled and flat version of the note that would normally sound with the lower holes open. On flute it's a "useable at a pinch" Bb and Ab and I can blow the G an...
by david_h
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)
Replies: 35
Views: 1741

Re: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)

Another interesting advantage here is that Pianoflute could also be done with other instruments, like Clarinet. If you wanted to try it with a double reed instrument I think you might find that for the acoustic side of things (rather than the key system) a Northumbrian pipe chanter is ready to go. ...
by david_h
Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:12 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)
Replies: 35
Views: 1741

Re: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)

...Unless, maybe each key could displace a section of tube rather then just opening a hole, thereby opening it up much more than lifting a finger off a hole can. I have seen key systems though I can't remember what on (possible a contrabass something or other) where the key is a section of tube wit...
by david_h
Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)
Replies: 35
Views: 1741

Re: A New Instrument... the Pianoflute! (Anyone want to make it?)

How many keys are you going to have to hold down at once to get some of the notes? If you're imagining pressing just one key for each note, each key needs to be mechanically connected to all the holes of lower notes to hold them open while all the ones above need to be closed. Looking at the drawin...
by david_h
Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:52 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Flattening the second octave
Replies: 16
Views: 1960

Re: Flattening the second octave

Following from suggestions that it’s the bottom octave that’s the problem. I find it a lot harder to change the pitch of the second octave than of the first. You could try setting the tuning slide for the second G against a tuner then blowing the first into tune against a drone.
by david_h
Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: A message from beyond the grave...
Replies: 18
Views: 2333

Re: A message from beyond the grave...

What are these “sticky condensates” ? The Wikipedia page on Breathing gives 5-6% water vapour and ‘trace’ quantities of VOCs, with those lifted after ammonia at 1ppm. Is the condensate sticky if we breath into a chilled glass tube?
by david_h
Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:21 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Double hole whistles?
Replies: 177
Views: 12905

Re: Double hole whistles?

... most of these scales usually have their own special flutes. Thanks (for the whole post). The point above was what I suspected. In the styles of music most often discussed here, especially Irish, the idiomatic way of playing a wind instrument is greatly influenced buy 'how it works'. If a tune w...
by david_h
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:50 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Double hole whistles?
Replies: 177
Views: 12905

Re: Double hole whistles?

Loren wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:27 pm « What we have here, is a failure to communicate. »
I find that the people who are making points that I understand and agree with are communicating more clearly at each attempt.

I am curious to know the *traditional* music genres for which a chromatic whistle is used.
by david_h
Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:26 am
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
Topic: Double hole whistles?
Replies: 177
Views: 12905

Re: Double hole whistles?

... the whistle, which seem to be the one ITM instrument that has lagged behind the others in its stubborn diatonicism. Unlike most of the others it's a transposing instrument. Compared to the others having several is affordable. As with much traditional music, the repertoire almost entirely diaton...
by david_h
Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:50 am
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Anyone like the big round embouchure?
Replies: 20
Views: 2743

Re: Anyone like the big round embouchure?

To what extent (if any), when we adjust our embouchure to change pitch and/or tone and/or volume, are we shifting the jet relative to the sides of the hole? Either keeping it centred (if it is) but changing the "spread" or using the shape of the cut nearer one or other of the sides?
by david_h
Mon Dec 25, 2023 4:12 pm
Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
Topic: More "divided by a common language" stuff
Replies: 414
Views: 194013

Re: More "divided by a common language" stuff

What Moof says matches my experience. Some extra observations. The vet practice we use have always offered first names but at least to start with have used Mr or Mrs to us. The dental practice I use has first-name-only staff badges (I think that, in a way, this gives them some privacy). When I phone...
by david_h
Wed Dec 20, 2023 11:36 am
Forum: Flute Forum
Topic: Wooden Boehm flutes
Replies: 23
Views: 2238

Re: Wooden Boehm flutes

[Server error - second paragraph of the post above is below] So I suspect I could be mainly hearing the difference between wooden boehm flute players and metal boehm flute players rather than the between the wooden flutes and metal flutes. Though when a borrowed a metal boehm flute for a while (I pl...