Geoffrey Ellis Pratten Style Flute - Tour Anyone?
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:44 pm
A few members here have been keeping in touch with flutemaker Geoffrey Ellis. His name and his work have come up here a few times in the past year.
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Geoffrey Ellis is a well regarded maker of Native American style flutes and he has been making flutes and whistles for Irish and related styles for a while now. He works in exotic timbers and his instruments look terrific and play well in my experience. You can see and hear some of his work here. The Pratten style flute is a new offering and has been under development for some time. You can be the first one on your block to test drive one now.
Last Fall we undertook a tour with a couple of Geoffrey's low whistles which went well. At that time Geoffrey was working on a Pratten style flute and several members here expressed an interest in auditioning one of those flutes. Geoffrey has now offered to send one of these out on a tour. I have offered to organize the flute tour. As in the whistle tour Geoffrey is interested in hearing from players and gathering feedback on his design. The whistle tour brought out some good feedback and resulted in a few changes to the whistle design and building process. I should be able to post a picture or two of the flute soon so that you can see what we are talking about here. In the meantime I would like to see who may be interested in trying out one of these flutes. PM me here and we'll see how things go.
There is also a possibility that Geoffrey may also include one of his one-piece beginner flutes in the tour package as well. Those can be seen here on the Ellis Flutes website. These are cylindrical bore flutes with a tapered head section a la Boehm. While we have not confirmed if one of these will be offered, I thought I would mention it here (nudge, nudge!) in the hope that we can offer a two-for-one flute tour.
I would like to keep this tour to the US just to ease the logistics and reduce the mail time and the cost of crossing international boundaries. For all of you outside the US I apologize for making that restriction. We'll leave the sign-up open for a few days while we sort out the details. So let me know if you would like to try one of these Ellis Pratten style flutes. I'll post more details as we have them. Thanks.
Feadoggie
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=89813 and
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=92438
Geoffrey Ellis is a well regarded maker of Native American style flutes and he has been making flutes and whistles for Irish and related styles for a while now. He works in exotic timbers and his instruments look terrific and play well in my experience. You can see and hear some of his work here. The Pratten style flute is a new offering and has been under development for some time. You can be the first one on your block to test drive one now.
Last Fall we undertook a tour with a couple of Geoffrey's low whistles which went well. At that time Geoffrey was working on a Pratten style flute and several members here expressed an interest in auditioning one of those flutes. Geoffrey has now offered to send one of these out on a tour. I have offered to organize the flute tour. As in the whistle tour Geoffrey is interested in hearing from players and gathering feedback on his design. The whistle tour brought out some good feedback and resulted in a few changes to the whistle design and building process. I should be able to post a picture or two of the flute soon so that you can see what we are talking about here. In the meantime I would like to see who may be interested in trying out one of these flutes. PM me here and we'll see how things go.
There is also a possibility that Geoffrey may also include one of his one-piece beginner flutes in the tour package as well. Those can be seen here on the Ellis Flutes website. These are cylindrical bore flutes with a tapered head section a la Boehm. While we have not confirmed if one of these will be offered, I thought I would mention it here (nudge, nudge!) in the hope that we can offer a two-for-one flute tour.
I would like to keep this tour to the US just to ease the logistics and reduce the mail time and the cost of crossing international boundaries. For all of you outside the US I apologize for making that restriction. We'll leave the sign-up open for a few days while we sort out the details. So let me know if you would like to try one of these Ellis Pratten style flutes. I'll post more details as we have them. Thanks.
Feadoggie