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No, sorry, not me. I do make keyless in Delrin, but not keyed flutes - I reckon the stuff is too hard to work for block mounted flutes. Should work well for post mounted flutes though, but that's not my cup of tea. And I don't think I've actually had a Wylde through here, if so, I didn't measure it ...

Tema sent me the images. It's a wooden Boehm style flute, ie tapered head, cylindrical body, Boehm flute fingering. Nickel Silver (German Silver) keywork from what I can see. Comes with the original cleaning stick and cork grease pot, in the original case labelled with the 23 Berners St London addre...

So I guess the answer comes down to "experiment and figure out" :lol: ! Thanks for all the thoughts! Results will be forth coming. Yes, please keep us up to date on progress. And tell us what's prompted this mischief making? Square whistles, eh? Who'd ever have thought of such a thing? Yo...

Wow, great stuff, thanks Wanderer. About how long would that have taken to print?

I reckon it would be just the thing, jefff. Nobody (I know) makes flute tuning slide grease, because modern flutes are stored in the case with the head off. So grease on the end of the bare tuning slide would attract all kinds of fluff and dirt, and spoil the case lining too. So that kind of forces ...

[ I think I just blow into the things! I'll try to be more observant in future! I'm sure I would if I could play flute to any standard above absolutely rudimentary! :lol: But when you're new to something, you do notice the different demands it makes. Haha, good on you! Just thinking on your observa...

I generally use heat to separate stuck slides, and this can often give a clue as to what caused them to get stuck. Shellack and beeswax seem to be quite common culprits, and sometimes bore oil. Bore oil in those days would probably have been almond oil (that's what the old sources recommended). Don...

I don't play flute much, but it definitely produces a lot more condensate. But my breath for flute is coming from deeper in my chest than it is for high whistle; that might be part of the explanation, but it might also be lack of skill. My whistle only tends to drip if I play with a lot of tonguing...

I doubt if you just breathed into an ice-cold tube that you would find the condensate sticky, for the reasons you mention. We breath out mostly gases, a bit of water and some other stuff, and the other stuff is a tiny proportion of the whole. And what it comprises depends on lots of things, includin...

All flutes get breath condensation, but many don't have stuck tuning slides. So I'd say it is unlikely that breath condensation is the main cause. Nah. The ones that don't have the stuck tuning slides have just been cleaned before they became stuck. Also, I'd guess that a slide combination with les...

Nah, I still reckon what's sticking up our slides is breath condensate. Think about this.... - What do all flute players, from the earliest days to now, pour down their flutes? Their dank breath. - And what does it leave behind? Breath condensate. - And why do we mop out our flutes after playing? Br...

Landed on my desk today, a head and barrel from a flute made by William Madelaine, 553 Old Kent Road, Bermondsey, London; listed as a flute maker between 1883 and 1894. This flute appears to be in the Prattens style, which would work with those dates. It was not a pretty sight. Both head and barrel ...

So far there seems to be little interest in this thread. When I have a moment I will post some flute weights that I have noted and after that I guess we’ll wait to see if the thread gets enough traction to warrant asking for it to be made sticky. Otherwise, it slides off the page and we let it die ...

So remember we found above that enough cork to lap three tenons weighed 0.3gms. I'd rather forgotten about this, but when I recently embarked on the restoration of a Rudall Rose, I kept all the thread I took off the three tenons separately in little poly bags, "in case they could assist authori...

On my flute the key pins are threaded into the uprights. You would not be able to tap them out. Yeah, that's my third category: - a long axle rod with a screw slot at one end and a thread at the other. Unscrew it. Jeweler's screwdriver needed - the largest size that will fit the slot. Can sometimes...