[ This Message was edited by: gcollins on 2003-01-17 20:31 ]
Some of us like older women…
[ This Message was edited by: gcollins on 2003-01-17 20:31 ]
This is the old gal after a Chris Wilkes headjob…
What serial number is your Rudall, G? I’ve got 3869, and off the top of my head, yours appears younger.
I’m going to make a good picture of it tomorrow, I hope.
Stuart
Hi Stuart:
Mine is #5384 made in 1848. You can’t see from the photo, but it has a left-hand indent customization and an imbedded sharkskin patch for the right hand thumb.
I’ll look for your picture post.
G
My meager collection. From top 2 bottom:
Andean quena in G
Quenacho in D
Tai Hei 1.8 shakuhachi
Indian bansuri in Eb ( Ab tonic)
Gautrot Aine 5 key flute (c.1888)
Mark Hoza 5 key modified Pratten( this flute appears on the cover of Woodenflute Obsession CD)
Notice that there are no recorders.
[ This Message was edited by: totst on 2003-01-18 02:34 ]
Hey Totst:
It’s been a long time, man. How are you?
Nice collection. What can you tell me about the Indian bansuri. Good flute? who makes it?
G
G
Hey G,
It plays pretty good. I did a litle tweaking on the embrochure hole. It cost me 40 Singapore dollars at Little India in Singapore. Very cheap and they had a whole bunch to choose from. Now if i can only find a teacher…
Here are my flutes:
from top to bottom:
Gemeinhardt 3SS-B Boehm-system flute
M&E 6-key “split-front” flute
antique 8-key flute
M&E Rudall & Rose model flute
Seery Pratten (large hole) model flute
Sweetheart Baroque flute
Very soon, I’ll have to update this pic: my Hammy should be here within days. 
Best,
–James
http://www.flutesite.com
P.S. I have several recorders as well but for the sake of public decency didn’t photograph them–it seems few want to look at nude recorders these days. 
James,
I knows this will be a tough question to answer, but which is your favorite and/or which do you play the most? For some reason, the Sweetheart in the foreground compelled me to wonder.
Bill
On 2003-01-19 13:27, SuiZen wrote:
James,I know this will be a tough question to answer, but which is your favorite and/or which do you play the most? For some reason, the Sweetheart in the foreground compelled me to wonder.
Bill
Bill,
That’s actually just the order in which they wouldn’t roll over or fall off the chair until I could get the picture snapped!
OK–serious answer:
Right now the Seery gets the most play, because I’m trying to be very “broken in” to a Pratten-style embouchure when the Hammy gets here. It sits in easy reach on my computer desk, put together, ready for a tune or two when I can grab a minute or two.
Right beside it stays the M&E Rudall & Rose, which also gets quite frequent play. I like it’s lovely “buttery” sound, and it makes a nice contrast to the Seery, being darker and smoother and having that older scale I love so much. And as to which M&E gets played the most, I guess that’s an open question, because the keyed flute gets grabbed for tunes in keys not friendly to keyless flutes, and also it’s the flute I play the most in session, probably because it’s just the loudest flute (except maybe the Seery) I have right now, and requires zero warm-up time, where the Seery takes a few minutes of play to get your embouchure set.
Next in play would probably be a toss-up between the silver flute (I still keep my hand in playing things besides Irish from time to time), and the antique 8-key, which I try to play at least 3 times a week to keep the wood at a fairly steady level of humidity.
I actually very rarely play the Baroque flute at all, which is a shame, because I do like it–there’s just so little time to play, these days, that it and the recorders and early music in general are often forced to take a back seat.
Best,
–James
http://www.flutesite.com
[ This Message was edited by: peeplj on 2003-01-19 13:59 ]
That’s actually just the order in which they wouldn’t roll over or fall off the chair until I could get the picture snapped! >
OK–serious answer:
James,
Your non-serious answer is good for a chuckle. I know the frustation associated with getting a flute to pose individually. Group shots are difficult, but more manageble
Your serious answer makes me long for a Seery flute. Hammy makes a really nice flute, and I know it will become your favorite.
Bill
What I used to do, when I was progressing the fastest, and what I wish I had time to do now, is when I practice, have all the flutes at once out like this, and change flutes between tunes.
This stops the fingers and embouchure from “setting” themselves for one kind of flute, and will center your embouchure faster than just about anything.
Unfortunately, there’s rarely time to take that approach anymore. There are days that if I didn’t have zero-care polymer flutes, I wouldn’t play at all. 
Best,
–James
http://www.flutesite.com
I enjoyed all the pics! BTW, Chris…that picture of the LeHart flute–it looks like the wood is about to sprout!
Claudine…nice pics of the horns. Now I know where to get nice looking U-bends for the bass drone of my uilleann pipes!
I’d post a piture of my 1840 Rudall & Rose 8-keyed black wooden flute, with sterling keys, but I just sold it to a flute major in Rochester, NY by the name of Chris Guanari (sp?). If anyone ever sees him a sessions up there, let me know, I’ve lost his contact info.
Since we talked about it, and it’s the only one I have a pic of right now . . .
R&R #3869, cocus with patent head and silver embouchure band (original equipment). Shown in the bottom half of the original box, including the cocuswood pot for cork grease. Rose’s initials are stamped into the keywork, a pic of which I ought to take for the historical interest.
Fun flute.
Stuart
Stuart:
Fun flute??? That’s awesome!
Thanks G! Yeah, it’s a great flute. The head’s not in the best shape, but I am in the process of having a snazzy new one made by A Major American Flutemaker. Should be fun.
Do you have a picture of your Olwell Bb to share?
Stuart
Here are a few flute pics from my trip to East Durham this summer. Sadly, none of these are mine.
A few flutes by Terry McGee.
A Butler Siccama style flute.
Table o’ flutes.
[ This Message was edited by: beowulf573 on 2003-01-21 09:01 ]
okay, Stuart…a major American maker??? Must be that you’re getting an Olwell head?
David M just raves about his Olwell head on the Rudall flute.
I’ll make some pics of the Bb this weekend and beam them over for you. the arrangement of the tone holes is interesting–and it’s an awesome flute.
Later,
G
Actually, not Olwell . . . but Abell.
Rhymes with Olwell, though.
Stuart