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Thanks for the super helpful advice Terry! I'll take it to my pipe making friend when I have the chance - I haven't dumped any funky old flute projects on him in 20 years or so.

I don't want to have to press Eb every time - or do you mean expanding its hole? Some old French simple system flutes had a special key to sharpen F#, its touch was next to the Eb, the hole was between G and F#. And some had a mechanism to open this automatically - that'd be ideal.

OK, I'll leave it well enough alone. I used to trawl eBay for anything people didn't want - German/French/American flutes - and bought a lot of odds and ends. I've a Cloos flute that seems happy above 440, for instance. A pipemaker friend who used to work on these thought that one was actually handm...

I've owned a wonderful old Geo Cloos flute for a long time. Ivory head, lots of keys. I was taken aback when I saw that period 19th century flutes from Rod Cameron were based on two models - Rudall and Rose, and Geo Cloos. Mine plays wonderfully with the slide out a little bit - but you're in A=430 ...

Piping and Dancing was a monthly magazine published between August 1935 and January 1941. Slightly larger than A5 in size, it was published by J. Hunter in Ardrossan, and provides a fascinating insight into piping in the later inter-war years. Although Highland dancing was a regular feature of the ...

https://i.imgur.com/bN3aTK2.jpg As seen 4 1/2 minutes into the 1979 movie Mad Max, first in the series. Dunno if Mel plays, or it was just the prop department at work. Braveheart notoriously showed Highland pipes on the screen with Irish pipes on the soundtrack, so there's another kind of connection.