What about John Rutzen Flutes?

Eldarion · Post by **Eldarion** » Sat Nov 24, 2001 7:14 pm

Hey all, I am wondering about what you guys think of John Rutzen's flutes. Are they good, and how do they compare to other flutes commonly mentioned on the board eg. Dixon, Copely, etc?

Secondly, will Dave Copely be producing Delrin flutes? I read it somewhere on the board that he is considering it.

Thirdly, I'd like to thank everyone for helping me out in my flute/fluting questions. If theres ever an award for person who asks the most flute questions and doesn't own a flute, I'd win it hands down. Thanks for indulging me!

dcopley · Post by **dcopley** » Sun Nov 25, 2001 7:38 am

I don't have any plans to produce delrin flutes, mainly because the demand for wooden flutes is keeping us more than busy. Also there would be a fair amount of re-learning and re-tooling needed because of the differences in machining delrin rather than wood. However I am working with someone else who is planning to develop and market a delrin flute based on the Copley design.

Dave Copley

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:24 pm

http://www.johnrutzen.com/oflutes.htm
this is another beautiful site and I really liked the look of his boxwood flutes also.
Enjoy .....

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:01 pm

talasiga wrote:http://www.johnrutzen.com/oflutes.htm
this is another beautiful site and I really liked the look of his boxwood flutes also.
Enjoy .....

Your a little late to reply to Eldarion, but better late then never!
And I guess Dave changed his mind about working Delrin...

Cathy Wilde · Post by **Cathy Wilde** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:07 pm

Jon C. wrote: And I guess Dave changed his mind about working Delrin...

Indeed!

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:16 pm

@jonc
I wasn't replying to eldarion.
I am realising the topic which is about RUTZEN's flutes.
The initiating post need not proscribe the topic though it may
direct its initial impetus.
What better place to share a link about the flutes of John Rutzen
than a topic entitled so?

Jon C. · Post by **Jon C.** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:21 pm

talasiga wrote:@jonc
I wasn't replying to eldarion.
I am realising the topic which is about RUTZEN's flutes.
The initiating post need not proscribe the topic though it may
direct its initial impetus.
What better place to share a link about the flutes of John Rutzen
than a topic entitled so?

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:33 pm

jon, what do you think of those boxwood flutes in Rutzen's site?
(I value your comments about flutes).

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:41 am

talasiga wrote:The initiating post need not proscribe the topic

Who's proscribing what/whom? Back to the USSR or late Republican/Imperial Rome or what?

Tal, I think you need to see the word doctor - get a prescription for it.......

Danged vowel fouls!

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:12 am

For the highly linear I will elucidate that sentence:-

The initiating post need not proscribe subsequent posts that may not refer to the initial post but which are within the scope of the topic's heading although it is expected that the immediate subsequent posts should defer somewhat to the initial post unless a paucity of immediate subsequent posts over a reasonable effluxion of time demonstrates such deference to be impractical as a continuing driver of subsequent posts.

While I am at it I'll feed the linear, literal dragon that seems to tyrannise the mentality of some with yet another pedantic elucidation of an earlier sentence:

this is another beautiful site and I really liked the look of his boxwood flutes also

to read:-

This is another beautiful site, meaning, John Rutzen's site, and I really liked the look of his boxwood (with brass and cork) flutes also.

I hope this mollifies you somewhat.

Now, can we discuss Rutzen's flutes? Anyone?

jemtheflute · Post by **jemtheflute** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:30 am

talasiga wrote:The initiating post need not proscribe subsequent posts that may not refer to the initial post but which are within the scope of the topic's heading although it is expected that the immediate subsequent posts should defer somewhat to the initial post unless a paucity of immediate subsequent posts over a reasonable effluxion of time demonstrates such deference to be impractical as a continuing driver of subsequent posts.

Ahhhhh. I feel better now. Can't beat a good dose of polysyllabic Latinate verbiage. Just what the doctor ordered

You CAN do it when you bother, Talasiga! And we even understand what you (meant to) mean then!

mahanpots · Post by **mahanpots** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:05 am

I'm getting tired of opening up a post and reading the first few posts and thinking about the topic and what my thoughts on the matter are and how can I share something useful, when I finally read that the initial post was posted seven or eight years ago.
I could be off-base here, but to me, it seems f-ing childish, kind of like those crank calls you make when you're a kid. Or throwing stones at cars.

Mahanpots

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:05 am

mahanpots wrote:I'm getting tired of opening up a post and reading the first few posts and thinking about the topic and what my thoughts on the matter are and how can I share something useful, when I finally read that the initial post was posted seven or eight years ago.
I could be off-base here, but to me, it seems f-ing childish, kind of like those crank calls you make when you're a kid. Or throwing stones at cars.

Mahanpots

Rutzen flutes are still being made, people are still buying them, playing them, curious about them, the Rutzen website is well and alive.

I didn't throw stones at cars or make crank calls when I was a kid so I don't quite understand your distress.

(I do, however, admit to wrapping little pebbles in lolly paper and selling them to some gullible school girls when I was about 3 years old. It was infantile, fanciful mimicking of Commerce with no pecuniary intention. My grandma still chased me about the house for that though with a large palm stem broom).

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:14 am

Agreed. I hate when
A zombie thread is revived!
It makes me haiku.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:27 am

@fearfaoin.
your presence is bumping up the revival.

It happened liked this:-
I found the the Rutzen website and I thought I would share it and also put it in a flute topic for future reference.

Rather than automatically and egocentricly creating a new topic I thought I should see if a pre-existing topic would accomodate it. I searched and found this topic.

I hate it when hundreds of new topics are created on the same ol issue. Like all those topics about C nat. etc etc repeating themselves.

I find the whining objections to this constructive practice quite childish.
Fortunately, in my experience, a lot of constructive and entertaining posters engage in revived topics and this is reviving and refreshing.

No one is making you to join this topic and no one makes me read your whinging.

What should I do to get someone to post a comment about the FLUTES, the beautiful flutes in question?