jiminos wrote:
To the digression... I have a Shannon, an M&E, and a Tipple.
To my ear, the Shannon is purer than the others. The M&E goes more easily to the dark Reedy sound. The Tipple is loud and crisp. None is,to me, easier. The embrouchure is very different on each. The Tipple having the smallest. Perhaps your challenge lies there. Have you tried tightening up your embrouchure? The smaller the hole, the better your focus must be.
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Well, my thought would be that something designed to be a flute would play *easier than something that wasn't. Not so?
And actually the embouchure on that smaller G fife I got, from My Whistle and Flute, is smaller than the one on the D flute I got. A 5/16 embouchure for the G with a 1/2 inch bore vs 3/8 for the D with a 3/4 inch bore.
Just for iggles here here's a link to that G fife so you can see what I'm talking about
https://youtu.be/5LJzKvpZzxM*"easier" being a relative term when it comes to flute playing. But I'm talking about something that is optimized to be an instrument, as it was designed to be an instrument, versus something that was not originally designed to be an instrument, such as a length of PVC pipe, and as such you have to kind of muscle it into being an instrument. In this case you're kind of muscling a PVC pipe into being a flute. Yes? No? Maybe?