quick question for those of you with GLP's....
If you have a MDT instead of a slide where is the MDT for you to be spot on at A 440 for low A? For me its with the MDT completely in and also with the Flute rolled in tight to my lips. I ask that because all of the other Flute players at a local session seem to have their slides out quite a bit to get A440. There are no other GLP's owners at the sessions I go to so am curious to here back from other GLP Owners on the message board.
Ben S
Tuning question for GLP Owners
-
Ben Shaffer
- Posts: 679
- Joined: Sat Nov 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: Ive played Irish Flute for a number of Years. Have played Sessions as well but not currently. I have also played Colonial American Flute in reenactment Groups. Started playing Clarinet in 1960 in School and later Community Bands. Also have played Bagpipes Solo as well as in Pipe Bands I played Drums in a Garage band in High School, probably my Instrument I played the best!
-
Ben Shaffer
- Posts: 679
- Joined: Sat Nov 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: Ive played Irish Flute for a number of Years. Have played Sessions as well but not currently. I have also played Colonial American Flute in reenactment Groups. Started playing Clarinet in 1960 in School and later Community Bands. Also have played Bagpipes Solo as well as in Pipe Bands I played Drums in a Garage band in High School, probably my Instrument I played the best!
-
plunk111
- Posts: 1526
- Joined: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:02 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: Love playing trumpet and modern flute at church as well as Irish trad flute in a band. Been playing Irish trad and 18th century period music for about 15 years.
- Location: Wheeling, WV
I just checked against my tuner... Mine is in tune from the low D up to about the high G with the slide pulled out about 4 mm (a little more than 1/16 inch). I play with the headjoint rolled in so the top of the embouchure hole lines up with the finger holes. My GLP is a keyless version, BTW.
The 4mm seems to agree with the organ at church and our local squeezebox player as well.
You probably need to check your cork position and make sure there aren't any leaks. If there is still a problem, check with Terry - he is very open to communications!
Pat
The 4mm seems to agree with the organ at church and our local squeezebox player as well.
You probably need to check your cork position and make sure there aren't any leaks. If there is still a problem, check with Terry - he is very open to communications!
Pat
Pat Plunkett, Wheeling, WV
-
ChrisCracknell
- Posts: 418
- Joined: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:05 am
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 10
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Contact:
Not directly comparable, but my GLP is in tune with me blowing a neutrally as I can with the metal tuning slide about a 1/4 inch pulled out. I spent some time fiddling with RTTA to get my cork position right for me and that was very beneficial too.
Chris
Chris
19th October, 2012:
Flute: Rookery
Flute: Musical Priest
Flute: Swinging on the Gate
Flute: Sally Gardens
4th June 2012:
Flute: Rolling in the Ryegrass, Green Gates
2 April, 2012:
Smallpipes: The Meeting of the Waters. Corn Riggs
Smallpipes: Mrs Hamilton of Pithcaithland
Flute: Rookery
Flute: Musical Priest
Flute: Swinging on the Gate
Flute: Sally Gardens
4th June 2012:
Flute: Rolling in the Ryegrass, Green Gates
2 April, 2012:
Smallpipes: The Meeting of the Waters. Corn Riggs
Smallpipes: Mrs Hamilton of Pithcaithland
-
workbased 2000
- Posts: 36
- Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:24 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: New Zealand
-
Jayhawk
- Posts: 3921
- Joined: Tue Oct 15, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: Well, just trying to update my avatar after a decade. Hope this counts! Ok, so apparently I must babble on longer.
- Location: Lawrence, KS
- Contact:
Ben - it could just be the way you blow the flute. Jordan and I have drastically different blowing styles - he loaned me a flute that I couldn't get in tune even with a slide pulled out all the way (Jordan could play it in tune with the slide pushed all the way in...or was it the other way around?). Regardless of which of us was flat or sharp, same flute but slide in totally different positions for each of us.
Eric
Eric
-
groxburgh
- Posts: 329
- Joined: Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:52 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
A designed in OZ made in NZ product. Read here:workbased 2000 wrote:What's RTTA??
http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/RTTA.htm
Cheers
Graeme