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The Boehms lent themselves to mass production, and they are cylindrical--both mean the maker has less to do and so lower the price. Also supply and demand are playing a role. The makers of the best 8 keys were, after the Boehms ...

here you go. https://www.irishflutestore.com/products/abell-boehm-flute-headjoint Also the Irish Flute Store sometimes sells old wooden Boehm flutes by good makers (Blayne is helpful). Such flutes are also available occasionally in other venues online, ...

My $.02 and take it with a grain of salt because I'm not a Boehm flute player (although I did own one for a while in the distant past, a nice Gemeinhardt with open hole keys). It seems to me that a wooden Boehm flute from a modern maker would be more ...

Note that the Rudall Carte flute listed above is "High Pitch / A=452." You'd want to check with Blayne at the Irish Flute Store to see if there is enough slide extension to play in A=440, and if that alters the intonation too much.

Check this. https://www.irishflutestore.com/product ... cert-flute

here you go. https://www.irishflutestore.com/product ... -headjoint

Also the Irish Flute Store sometimes sells old wooden Boehm flutes by good makers (Blayne is helpful). Such flutes are also available occasionally in other venues online, so if you watch them you will probably find one.

... it is the case that present-day wind players use a wide range of differentiated tonguing syllables. My own experience with learning to play the Boehm flute as a child was filled with lots of exercises blowing notes with vocal tract articulations that emphasized the use of different parts of ...

My $.02 and take it with a grain of salt because I'm not a Boehm flute player (although I did own one for a while in the distant past, a nice Gemeinhardt with open hole keys). It seems to me that a wooden Boehm flute from a modern maker would be more ...

... on buying one of these that is high quality but not too expensive (i.e., not $15,000 or some ludicrous price like that)? My girlfriend plays Boehm flute and is trying to get more into Irish music, and she's looking into something like this as an alternative to Irish flute. She ideally wants ...

... difficulty getting it up to pitch with a few mm spare on the tuning slide. I used to be there myself, having been "forced sharp" by a Boehm flute teacher and a Boehm flute made before Albert Cooper brought sense to that world. So my earliest flutes tended to be a bit lacking in tuning ...

His 8 key Rudall Rose version of the simple system flute with the Boehm headjoint compatibility makes it very unique. Love this solid flute without vintage pitch quirks and lots of grunt. Lovely to see Peter Worrell featured for his less well known one handed ...

... metal typewriter flute. A skilled listener won't accept the difference whereas an uninitiated baroque traverso listener will accept even a bansuri Boehm or any later era flute for a 'baroquey' sound. In a contemporary concert Boehm tubular cylindrical flute with 4 octaves, an extended B foot will ...

Geert Lejeune also makes C-foots :-) I've just swopped my pewter plug style foot for a Boehm style C-foot. 100% (for me) the right choice. I'd been playing 2+ years with the traditional R&R style pewter plug. 1 week after switch over, prefer the ergonomics, solidity ...

Regarding Boehm foot joint keywork...I really thought it might work best for me since I have a very short pinky, but I found it to be unusable. The old style is best for me, and I suspect best for those with medium/small hands and short pinkies.

Eric

I've owned a bunch of 8-keyed flutes, old and new, including 3 with a Boehm foot. The best in my opinion is Jay Ham's (ask for his latest design). He offers several flute models, but his standard "large hole" Rudall has the other characterics you're ...