Hi there,
can find many many many good reviews of the Polymer 3 part Dixon flute BUT, since the price difference is not too high AND that wood is better than polymer, has anybody tried the 3-part wooden dixon flute …
Cheers,
Nicolas.
www.itmib.be.tf
Well Ive got two weeks on mine now so I guess Ill take a crack at it. Mine is rosewood. That was Tonys suggestion. Thats what he plays and likes. The price turned out to be about 320 dollars with a real clever soft case and postage. It is my first wooden flute, in fact I had never seen a wooden flute in the flesh before recieving this little beauty. Also I am just a beginner and still struggling mightily. I have various bamboo and plastic flutes and those are what I have been using to try and teach myself on.
The Dixon is a very basic flute. No tuneing slide, cork tenons, silver rings and that is it. It is a beautiful flute. Very high quality work, a real nice hunk of wood. As for the playing; very easy to fill, very easy to play, and not very loud. You can get all the sounds you want, reedy, bussy, pure, what ever. It is just not a great session tool. In my house it is perfect. Is it worth the money? you bet. Do I love it, you bet. Best money I have ever spent.
It was realy my break-through instument. I have had nothing but trouble with my lips until I got this flute. With this instument I finaly learned to listen to what the flute wanted as far as my embochure went.
I can now pick up any of my other flutes and play them. This is a minor merical. I kid you not. I am still breaking in the Dixon being limited to about 15 to 20 min sessions for the first 2 weeks but now I just pick up another flute and keep playing. In fact the other day I played so much that I couldn`t play a lick yesterday. My lips felt like they belonged to someone else.
I highly recomend the Dixon in wood. And I highly recommend Tony as a first rate guy to do business with. A true craftsman. I only wish there was someone around here that had his 3 piece plastic one that I could compair it to.
Anyway thats my empression of this sweatheart. I am sure there are better qualified players out there with one of these that could be more technical.
Tom
Tom - Nice Dixon review. I, too, wish we lived near each other so we could try each other’s Dixon. The polymer one sounds very similar to the rosewood - basic, but very well made. The tenon allows for tuning just fine in my opinion. However, I can get quite a decent volume on mine WHEN I get the embouchure just right. I wonder if the rosewood is naturally quieter or if with time you’ll get your volume up, too. This is what helped me - I push outward a bit with my right arm so that I’m blowing just a bit more towards the end of the flute instead of blowing straight at the far wall of the embouchure hole. Does that make sense? When I do that, the volume goes up quite a bit.
Eric
Thanks for the tip Erik, I will give that a try tomorrow or as soon as I get my lips back. There have been accidental just right lips days where the volume seems pretty good but the tone holes are realy small so I think volume will be limited even when I do get it right. Maybe in a month or so we could trade for a couple of weeks. I would like to see what others think of this flute. It just seems like such a fine piece of work for the money. I do have a Lehart coming in October if we don`t decide to bomb the hell out of France while were in the mood. I just hope I can play well enough by then to do it justice.
Tom
I bet you will find that volume increases
significantly as you play the flute longer.
My experience with the Dixon polymer.
Thats good to hear Jim couse I am truely in love, head over heals in love with the flute. I just hope I live long enough to get a handle on it.
Tom