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By “you”, I mean Cyberknight. When I go to preferences, I already have "allow other users to send you private messages" checked. There's also a "private messages" tab on my profile, but when I click on it, it just says "You are not authorised to read private messages."...

Hello, Is the Goldie D still available? Send me PM or Email to chat. Thanks, Hi, Tou-Che! Yes, it's still available. But I'm not sure how I send PMs on this forum. :-? Can a mod (or someone else) explain if this is possible/how to do this? Alternatively, you can email me at debategdb@gmail.com abou...

Hello, Is the Goldie D still available? Send me PM or Email to chat. Thanks, Hi, Tou-Che! Yes, it's still available. But I'm not sure how I send PMs on this forum. :-? Can a mod (or someone else) explain if this is possible/how to do this? Alternatively, you can email me at debategdb@gmail.com abou...

I don't know if i have a magic saliva or not. But i never clean my whistles and at the beginning they been clogging often (i play mostly MkPro). But after a while they just stop... Don't know why, but haver you ever tried with no cleaning? It's funny that you mention it, because I've stopped cleani...

I'd like to sell the following items (hopefully I posted this properly - sorry if I didn't, mods!): Goldie High D : this was made in 2013, according to the marking on the inside. I purchased it in good-as-new condition from the Irish Flute Store a few months ago (the previous owner must have not use...

I'll have to see what standard I can get them up to, but at the moment I'm not making them tunable, though I do have ideas about making them out of multiple sections held together with magnets (to make them pocketable) and there will then be an option to put spacers in between sections to tune them...

Finally, your point about clarinets raises an interesting problem, which is that a keyboard layout isn't just going to make embouchure difficulties vanish. I'm imagining that you would connect the air tube to the headpiece (whether that be a sideblown hole, a fipple, or reed like Clarinet) in a way...

In terms of what affects octave imbalance, I've read (mostly on this forum) that this is mostly a function of bore size/wall thickness, presence/absence of undercutting on holes, and the extent to which the body (OR the head) is tapered. I'd be surprised if bore thickness is key to it. My Generatio...

But again, you’re making it under the assumption that someone is going to lift the pinky all the time. The difference in pitch is so small that the main effect of opening it or closing it is to affect the tone quality, so if you're playing fast you don't need to care if it's open or closed, but you...

How would the stretch be not as bad when you add extra holes for chromatics? That doesn’t seem to make sense. And yeah, I hear what you’re saying. But bear in mind that one option for low D whistles might be having keys, like the MK Chameleon. A low D chromatic whistle with just holes might be too ...

That’s fair. I guess I’d have to try it out and see how easy it is to adapt to. :) I've been building a resin tube for a low D kenny whistle for a while as a way of using up excess resin, and it's getting close to the point where I can start drilling holes in it. I now realise that the stretch issu...

No, I think if you're going to use a left hand pinky hole, the right way to do it is the way you've (I assume) already done it. It should be closed all the time and opened only for the accidental. Yes, that does have the downside of making you adjust a bit to playing with your pinky down all the ti...

Looking at the drawing I assumed it was tuned for one hole open at a time. (Is that 'closed fingering'?) That would cause a lot of weird sounding notes that sound muffled, and the higher up you go, the more they'll misfire. Having one flute tube per piano key is likely the most workable solution if...

Another interesting advantage here is that Pianoflute could also be done with other instruments, like Clarinet. If you wanted to try it with a double reed instrument I think you might find that for the acoustic side of things (rather than the key system) a Northumbrian pipe chanter is ready to go. ...