My main playing flute at the moment is keyless, but playing my Potter 8-key the other day, I was reminded of my favorite note. It's C in the first octave, but fingered as XOX XXX with the C foot joint keys. It's basically the octave of low C.
It's not a terribly useful note because it sounds so different to the others. I don't think I've ever use it in a tune. But there's something so peculiarly satisfying about it that I use it sometimes for long tone practice. It doesn't even work well on every flute, but on the ones it does work on it just pings out as bright and cheerful as you please.
So that's my favorite note/fingering. What's yours?
My favorite note
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Re: My favorite note
I love the bell-tone on most instruments I play, and somehow consider it the instrument's characteristic voice even though I hit it less in playing than any others.
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Re: My favorite note
I'm particularly fond of £50 note.
Particularly like the motion thread and the secret pattern you can only see in UV light.... Sadly, they're almost useless here in the US.
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Particularly like the motion thread and the secret pattern you can only see in UV light.... Sadly, they're almost useless here in the US.
Best wishes.
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Re: My favorite note
I really like my flutes, but there some kind of special feeling with the Eb note... specially on the second octave. 
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Re: My favorite note
If you have any knocking about the place, taking up unnecessary room, just send them here, where they will be lovingly looked after and given a good home.Steve Bliven wrote:I'm particularly fond of £50 note.
Particularly like the motion thread and the secret pattern you can only see in UV light.... Sadly, they're almost useless here in the US.
Best wishes.
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Re: My favorite note
No £50 notes, but I have an assortment of coins my mother collected on her travels. The £1 and 50 new pence are still legal tender, even perhaps the 2-shilling piece with George VI on the front, but probably not worth the cost of shipping to where they'd be acceptable. No idea what to do with the francs and Deutschemarks. The latest to turn up is a 1978 Bermuda penny.benhall.1 wrote:If you have any knocking about the place, taking up unnecessary room, just send them here, where they will be lovingly looked after and given a good home.Steve Bliven wrote:I'm particularly fond of £50 note.
Particularly like the motion thread and the secret pattern you can only see in UV light.... Sadly, they're almost useless here in the US.
Best wishes.
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Re: My favorite note
Is it triangular?Tunborough wrote:The latest to turn up is a 1978 Bermuda penny.
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Re: My favorite note
It's probably disappeared by now.benhall.1 wrote:Is it triangular?Tunborough wrote:The latest to turn up is a 1978 Bermuda penny.
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Re: My favorite note
No, but the 50 new pence pieces are septagonal, same size and shape as the 10 peso pieces. The 1 kuruş piece has a hole in the middle.benhall.1 wrote:Is it triangular?Tunborough wrote:The latest to turn up is a 1978 Bermuda penny.
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The penny is still here, 'though it's value has pretty much disappeared.Geraint wrote:It's probably disappeared by now.benhall.1 wrote:Is it triangular?Tunborough wrote:The latest to turn up is a 1978 Bermuda penny.