for a friend of mine i'm looking for a non-irish (he doesn't like itm) keyless flute.
We have seen a lot of bamboo flute, and they are very good, but he would like to buy a polymer/plastic flute to start.
The budget is around 100$
do you someone that built polymer renaissance flute, rafi or bassano models?
Non-Irish keyless flute
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Re: Non-Irish keyless flute
FWIW, most 'Irish' flutes are just flutes used for Irish music...
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Re: Non-Irish keyless flute
What Peter said. Just because a flute is canonically typical of the tradition, it's not as if it will make you play Irish music on it against your will. FWIW.
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Re: Non-Irish keyless flute
I think a bigger problem will be that $100 budget. There are Renaissance and Baroque flutes out there in wood and polymer, but not at that price.
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Re: Non-Irish keyless flute
Right. At that budget I'm thinking you'd have to go with PVC tubing flutes. Some of these can be actually quite good. But if memling's friend insists on anything more than that - particularly if the instrument is going to be any good - I'm afraid his hopes are unrealistic for the money.Tim2723 wrote:I think a bigger problem will be that $100 budget. There are Renaissance and Baroque flutes out there in wood and polymer, but not at that price.
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Re: Non-Irish keyless flute
For that budget a tipple flute would be ideal-memling wrote:for a friend of mine i'm looking for a non-irish (he doesn't like itm) keyless flute.
We have seen a lot of bamboo flute, and they are very good, but he would like to buy a polymer/plastic flute to start.
The budget is around 100$
do you someone that built polymer renaissance flute, rafi or bassano models?
http://tippleflutes.com/
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Re: Non-Irish keyless flute
i've done a mistake writing the first message, 100$ is my budget to buy a cheap plastic flute (a Tipple probably), for an ipotetic polymer renaissance flute i can spend 300-400$
Re: Non-Irish keyless flute
You might want to look at th eSweetheart Flute Company. They have a couple of interesting flutes. I've owned a couple myself and they're good quality.