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Well forum means just that and I am not here to be set upon for commenting. I usually make one comment and reply to comments that address mine, so better not to even.

I don't see what JDs comment has to do about flutes, but leave you all to it.

When I walk I don't return, at all.

Bye.

"It is not just a matter of being fortunate. I make an effort to get my hands on flutes from the best makers, past and present, so that I can" Not everyone is able to, so that makes you fortunate. "That way I can ensure that the information in my posts is grounded in first-hand experi...

Definitely, and I should have included consistency and ease of playing as standards, along with tuning and tone. I had just played the various cylindrical flutes after writing the previous, none require any special embouchure or activity to play to the octave differences they were tuned at (0 to 15 ...

Mess around with all the parameters till one sounds good, offer that design to players, and then wait however long to find out if the design is liked and taken up, unlimited patience being the essence. Heh heh, I should probably have made clear that I'm not intending to make whistles to sell. Given...

BTW if me signature tunes here still work they are before I got the Baubet. I'm glad you pointed out those links to your tunes, they still work and I much like the playing, it is very lyrical. The early Rudall flutes are a favourite sound, but I still have to make one that is near enough to be acce...

For conical bores I am not sure tuning was the priority, at least in the sense that until 1800 or so use of larger toneholes for octave tuning was not common. Conical allowed closer spacing of otherwise widely spaced small toneholes, as well as helping with octave tuning of small toneholes. https://...

I wouldn't argue because it just is not possible to, firstly because any flute will have the tuning it has, secondly because online there is no way to tell how accurate measurements are and how embouchure is being used to adjust tuning, and thirdly there is not a way to say any embouchure (or style ...

You’ve labeled this a “controlled experiment” rather than a shared design exercise. The long and presumably growing list of variables is certainly appropriate to the workshop context; indeed it’s essential to it. From the statistical perspective, however, the evaluation of a multivariate array of m...

Terry "Yes, the proper name for the instrument is the English Flageolet, but who's going to bother with that!" The French probably, but already flageolet sounds like something out of botany and I have no idea how the English manage to pronounce it ...or even how they (we) do...at least I p...

Browsing all I am able to find online, and still I haven't come across a clear presentation on how wood will behave after drying. There are tons of technical papers, as well as very practical explanations elsewhere, on drying, on regimes to avoid stresses and warping while drying, how those occur. S...

To avoid confusion of terminology etc. flageolet is a french latin derived word for whistle, e.g. in 16th century was not an English word The Treasurie of the French Tong: Teaching the Waye to Varie All 1580  Flageolet - a whistle , a pipe It eventually came to denote a whistle with two thumbholes, ...

From what I understand, the embouchure/ window generates a whole load of frequencies, the ones which match the resonances of the bore (i.e. length, pitch, harmonics) are amplified by the returning reflected pressure wave from the open end of the bore. In other words it is that reflection that is the...

Steam setting apparently is relatively permanent, there are three polymers that set at different temperature/MC levels, lignin being the one in the range of steaming. Steaming twice isn't recommended for bending wood as it becomes dry and brittle after first go, but for drying to shape should be ok....

If this were to be done to a flute, I wonder if you could just make a second end cap to the headjoint with a hole in the center for the piezo? Then it would sit right next to the head joint cork. Apparently it needs a small through hole to the bore (?) ...but drilling that through a cork would seem...

I agree completely on that. Though sawn lumber might warp because of distance across wood being equivalent to including different types of wood structure on one side vs the other, for branches it is the reaction wood and knots that act differently. On one forum a writer had a three hundred year old ...