Certainly, especially if you pass out psychedelicsGeoffrey Ellis wrote:
The question is, could you get away with bringing this to the local session?
to everyone 30 minutes or so before hand.
Certainly, especially if you pass out psychedelicsGeoffrey Ellis wrote:
The question is, could you get away with bringing this to the local session?
Geoffrey Ellis wrote:I'm still not sure how popular they are, but Geoffrey Guo has his line of injection molded plastic flutes in all the colors of the rainbow I visited his booth at the National Flute Association convention in 2016 and talked with one of his helpers. They were marketing these flutes to college marching bands, making the flutes in the school colors! I didn't love the look of them, personally, because they were just primary colors in a matte finish, but I'm told that they are pretty good flutes. They sell a lot of pink flutes to Japanese girls--it seems to be a thing.PB+J wrote:I've done a lot of gigs with sax players, and you can get a professional quality sax in lots of finishes--matte or shiny, aged or brand new, black, copper colored, pink and purple and red--excellent saxes can be bought in all sorts of cool color combinations.
The Boehm flute? Except at the low end, you can have silver, and silver colored. And gold, if you're willing to drop over 10 large. Those people are so conservative!
i could see this i have a saxophone and HR mps,, warmth would saturate the sound it is a very vibrant material i think you might have a lead on the flute situation using this, i would think anyway would you consider Eb and F flutesGeoffrey Ellis wrote:Subjective, of course, but I would say that all other things being equal I prefer the ebonite over both the delrin and wood. It has a very "lively" quality. Lots of warmth, for players who like that.cavefish wrote:nice how does an ebonite sound compared to delrin and wood
I could go on at length about why I like ebonite as a flute material, but if you are willing you can read this article by Tom Ridenour, clarinet maker. It was this article (link below) that turned me onto trying ebonite. He evaluates the qualities of natural hard rubber (ebonite) and I've found his analysis to be very accurate based on my experiences. I've posted this link in the past, but it is always worth sharing for anyone who has not seen it.
http://ridenourclarinetproducts.com/the ... -myth.html
My Essential Flute line (which I make out of ebonite quite frequently) offer the Eflat and F option. Also have a D, C and low Bflat (this last one is due to be released this month).cavefish wrote:i could see this i have a saxophone and HR mps,, warmth would saturate the sound it is a very vibrant material i think you might have a lead on the flute situation using this, i would think anyway would you consider Eb and F flutesGeoffrey Ellis wrote:Subjective, of course, but I would say that all other things being equal I prefer the ebonite over both the delrin and wood. It has a very "lively" quality. Lots of warmth, for players who like that.cavefish wrote:nice how does an ebonite sound compared to delrin and wood
I could go on at length about why I like ebonite as a flute material, but if you are willing you can read this article by Tom Ridenour, clarinet maker. It was this article (link below) that turned me onto trying ebonite. He evaluates the qualities of natural hard rubber (ebonite) and I've found his analysis to be very accurate based on my experiences. I've posted this link in the past, but it is always worth sharing for anyone who has not seen it.
http://ridenourclarinetproducts.com/the ... -myth.html
I don't know about pearlescent, but, Roy McManus is making ebonite whistles in color.Nanohedron wrote:Does ebonite come in pearlescent? That might be striking in white or ivory hues.
Yeah, not all of the ebonite colors have the same appeal to me. I have their catalog and the colors range from incredibly cool looking to totally stomach-churning! But I think the art form of making the ebonite and figuring out how to formulate the colors is truly amazing. So hats off to SEM--they are amazing. But out of the dozens and dozens of color options, I've so far only found about ten of them that I like for flutes.fatmac wrote:Those bluey ones look like they've been through the washing machine & have got soap suds left on them - no, you guessed it, I'm not a fan of these.
I'm thinking one of those greens in the last sentence should be grey? If the first was meant to be green, then we are very much in agreement -- I liked the black with green swirls so much I quickly fired off a text to my wife commenting that I loved it. (And thought the original flute looked fine, and the black/grey one smart.)jemtheflute wrote:Well, although the raspberry sundae effect wouldn’t be my favourite blend of colours, I think it looks stunning. I can't imagine why it would be any sort of problem to fetch to a session, other than that its talking point attraction of attention might make getting any playing done tricky.
I want one of the green-and-black swirly ones myself, one day, though I agree the green-and-black does look very smart.
Well, I don't make the ebonite if that is what you are asking!MadmanWithaWhistle wrote:Wow! Certainly some wild stuff in this thread!
Geoff, are you pouring an ebonite rod stock to turn, or do you cast the bores these days?
Or maybe he's colorblind and someone played a cruel trick on him.awildman wrote:"Man walks down the street with that flute, people know he's not afraid of anything."