As a baroque flute, does the Tipple flute in C# make a remotely plausible substitute for an A=415 D flute like the Aulos Stanesby plastic?
As far as I can see, the Tipple requires you to half-hole a lot of notes that you can get by cross-fingering on a Baroque traverso. For me this is NOT a good thing. Coming from the recorder (where you hardly ever need to do it), I regard half-holing as an absolute last resort.
But the Aulos costs five times as much.
Has Tipple ever made small-fingerhole flutes that crossfinger properly?
It’s nothing like a baroque traverso unfortunately. The half-holing techniques are too weak, particularly at the Eb end.
The Japanese virtuoso baroque player Masahiro Ahita’s direction in the making of the Stanesby replica really outdid itself. Not even the Aulos Grenser replica comes close to the Stanesby replica.
If the cost is too high, it’s a reflection of how well thought out and made the Stanesby is. Only the 3rd octave F really drifts for me and I really love mine since I bought it. I played it in a performance yesterday and the audience were surprised to discover it was made of plastic afterwards.
Good alternatives if you’re on a budget:
The Rottenburgh model is very attractive. Apparently Bernolin is coming out with a Delusse model shortly too.
Don’t forget Luc Verhoeven: http://users.skynet.be/fluiten/
who offers some great audio samples - his flutes are very cost attractive. I didn’t hear back from him after asking for one. In any case, I realised that I might as well save up for my dream traverso instead. Traversos pretty much are what you pay for … the tuning skill is really very different from the folk & irish flute.
Nothing beats the original 
Back to Stanesbys - Gurovich makes one for 445 Euro out of a pale wood. His blackwood version is beautiful looking:
Gregorio’s one is hard to find much in English:
Besteck’s version is even more expensive at 1800 Euro:
And Berney’s version is beautiful too:
My favourite looking one (because owning isn’t really going to happen) is the Eugene Crijnen:
made out of blackwood and silver. Just look at those countersunk tone holes.
Anyway…I think the Aulos Stanesby is fantastic value for its special sonority!
Aha. The V&A Bressan! I have Jed Wentz’s recording of Blavet sonatas using a Cameron copy of it. It’s a howitzer of a flute!
cf: http://www.jedwentz.com/Articles/Topics/Flutes.html
