Carbony High D flute?
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Carbony High D flute?
Hello all, does anyone have experience with the Carbony High D flute? Or lacking that, know of someone that is currently making a delrin, composite, or other un-keyed, non-wood, conical-bore piccolo?
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Somebody posted a helpful reply, that seemed to disappear?
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That was me...there is something weird with the board not liking what I want to post when I tried to edit it. Tried PM'ing and that didn't work, either. Maybe you can PM me and I can PM you back?
Ha...copying to an email and cutting and pasting from the email seemed to have worked. Weird.
Eric
Ha...copying to an email and cutting and pasting from the email seemed to have worked. Weird.
Eric
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Re: Carbony High D flute?
No experience with Carbonny's high D fife/flute, but I have a really nice Tipple High D flute/fife with Tipple-Fajardo Wedge that is cylindrical but a real nice player for folk music. Non-wooden options seem hard to find as are conical versions (but a reverse taper headjoint or wedge takes care of the tuning issues and with a piccolo sized body the finger holes are easy enough for a child to play).
Other non-wood options:
https://www.tonydixonmusic.co.uk/produc ... /piccolos/
https://shop.fifeanddrumshop.com/p/d-fi ... um-2-piece
Wooden options include:
These guys: https://musiquemorneaux.com/contemporary-fifes/
I had one when they were Sweetheart flutes, and Jos took over the business (he had been working for Walt) when Walt Sr. passed. It was great...but I had a non-tunable version and moved on to the Tipple.
Finally, an option I have no experience with:
https://shop.fifeanddrumshop.com/c/ente ... -fifes-3pc
Eric
Other non-wood options:
https://www.tonydixonmusic.co.uk/produc ... /piccolos/
https://shop.fifeanddrumshop.com/p/d-fi ... um-2-piece
Wooden options include:
These guys: https://musiquemorneaux.com/contemporary-fifes/
I had one when they were Sweetheart flutes, and Jos took over the business (he had been working for Walt) when Walt Sr. passed. It was great...but I had a non-tunable version and moved on to the Tipple.
Finally, an option I have no experience with:
https://shop.fifeanddrumshop.com/c/ente ... -fifes-3pc
Eric
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Re: Carbony High D flute?
I bought one of Jem the Flute’s (a member here) many years ago and still love it. Not sure if he still makes them, but wouldn’t hurt to ask. It’s cylindrical, not conical, but it plays incredibly well!
Pat
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Re: Carbony High D flute?
And I have a blackwood (not Delrin/other "plastic" but still nice) piccolo from Terry McGee that I would part with, should that be of any interest.
Jem's pics were quite nice but I think he did those for school programs or something on that order and stopped making them after the program ended.
Best wishes.
Steve
Jem's pics were quite nice but I think he did those for school programs or something on that order and stopped making them after the program ended.
Best wishes.
Steve
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@steve
And FWIW, Florida has already banned my life. And me.
Oooh, I’m really thinking of something abuse-worthy, which one of Terry’s Blackwood piccolos really isn’t BUT. . . Um, I’ll PM you. . .Steve Bliven wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:08 pm And I have a blackwood (not Delrin/other "plastic" but still nice) piccolo from Terry McGee that I would part with, should that be of any interest.
Steve
And FWIW, Florida has already banned my life. And me.
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Responded to the PM. And congrats on your relationship with Florida.hammerwoman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:06 pm I’ll PM you. . .
And FWIW, Florida has already banned my life. And me.
Best wishes.
Steve
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Re: Carbony High D flute?
So, yes, I’ve now got one of Terry McGee’s lovely piccs on the way, but would still like to hear from folks that have experience with a delrin or carbon-fiber high-D flute/piccolo, meaning, a six-hole (or seven, if it’s got a C-nat port for the left thumb) tapered-bore thingummy. Not really interested in straight-gauge jobs. I still need something to take the place in my handbag of the Burke Session Brass D whistle that I mostly use to scratch my back these days.
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Classy backscratcher...but backscratchers matter.
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It is Miss Elspeth, my small gray cat, who must be held accountable for what is surely a noble instrument to find itself in such reduced circumstances. She is quite devoted to the flute, and if she hasn’t accompanied me upstairs to my office for our formal morning practice, upon hearing me commence, she is certain to be knocking at the door in short order. Even as I am hurling myself, more or less unsuccessfully, at the upper reaches of a rather diabolical page of exercises titled, “Modes Ridiculous in Two Sharps,” Elspeth lies curled contentedly at my feet. If I so much as reach for the Burke, however, and play even a bar or two of, say, “Swallowtail Jig,” or something else quite low in the whistle’s range, she immediately gets up with the air of one much offended, and glares at me to be let out.
How she gets on with the piccolo, of course, remains to be seen.