Easiest Simple flute to play?

[keithsandra]

Individualism isn't dead at all.
I just think that people confuse forum conversation
for forum pedagogy.

They do. Bleedin' tedious, innit?

BTW, "strewth" was the North American translation. The real spelling and pronunciation, as you know, is "stroof", as in, "Stroof, Keef ..."

PS: What about "Corblimey" then?

K.

[keithsandra]

fipple flute

next forum up

Yes, if only we could get the same ease, fluency and immediacy from the flute as we get from the fipple flute without losing any of the flute's superiority of tone and nuance.

(This remark might be too revealing of my present level of competence ...).



K.

[Denny]

you could quit digging anytime

[MikeS]

I did not know they said "strewth" in North America still. Hardly said down under these days.

Ah, but some of us (fortunately) had to memorize Kipling in school.

I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick:
I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick,
But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard: I've made the cinders fly,
And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drink
and blacking the Corporal's eye.
With a second-hand overcoat under my head,
And a beautiful view of the yard,
O it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B.
For "drunk and resisting the Guard!"
Mad drunk and resisting the Guard --
'Strewth, but I socked it them hard!
So it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B.
For "drunk and resisting the Guard."

Not that I think you need an excuse for poetry, but I will make a token attempt at keeping on topic, even though it's tough to tell what the topic really is any more. As a newbie with what might be described charitably as a developing embouchure, the easiest flute to play I've encountered is a Burns Rudall.

[chas]

I also once had a Burns Standard in Blackwood, and it just seemed to epitomize what a wooden flute should sound like-full, rich, and sensual.

Barry, out of curiosity, why did you get rid of a flute that you still regard so highly?

I've parted with flutes that I loved because of hand issues -- a set of Casey's low flutes and a Hammy (in cocobolo, one of the prettiest flutes I've ever seen).

[greenspiderweb]

I also once had a Burns Standard in Blackwood, and it just seemed to epitomize what a wooden flute should sound like-full, rich, and sensual.

Barry, out of curiosity, why did you get rid of a flute that you still regard so highly?

I've parted with flutes that I loved because of hand issues -- a set of Casey's low flutes and a Hammy (in cocobolo, one of the prettiest flutes I've ever seen).

Good question, Charlie! I wondered this myself as I typed it last night too. So I went back and found my sale post on it, which explains why:

[SOLD]...:Casey Burns Blackwood Standard, no tuning slide or rings-all wood, inline holes (edit: bottom hole is slightly offset). I wasn't going to sell this one, becuase it's a really nice flute-but I accidentally (actually due more to an act of kindness) ran into a Burns Boxwood Pratten-just as nice, but a little different in voice...

So, mostly for financial reasons, as it has been most times with me. You see, I was kind of Burns tasting at the time, and wanted to spend more time with my new love...and though I really did like the Standard's Blackwood voice, the Boxwood Pratten voice was similar, but still different, and no doubt enticing enough for me to keep it and find out more about it. I knew even then that you just don't find out right away about a flute until you've played it for a good while. So, for lack of funds, I had to sell something again, because the Burns Boxwood had just become available to me out of the blue (thank you Rob, and Avery), like they often do, when you aren't really shopping for a new flute! Turns out, I didn't do so bad, since I still have the Burns Pratten.

It was my first introduction to the lovely Burns Boxwood family, of now which I have three, as it seems I've discovered quite by surprise, to be my favorite Burns voice, and most cherished flutes I have. Wouldn't mind having the Standard back too, but that went to Alaska, and at the last report, it was very happy in the wilds with it's new owner! Besides, there are flutes I now have that I need to sort out my preferences and sell too! There won't be any of Casey's for sale though!

Flute on!
Barry

[Rob Sharer]

They do. Bleedin' tedious, innit?

So, let me make sure I have the chronology right; in this thread you have, so far, managed to:

1) Ask a fuzzy, semi-sensical question of the sages here.

2) Quibble fiercely when no one saluted what had been run up the pole.

3) Restate the question several times without either clearing up the confusion or engendering much in the way of helpful responses (mine and a couple of others excluded).

4) Insult the majority of thread participants who, apparently, honestly didn't get what you're on about, playing it off with a bit of folksy, post-imperial nostalgia slang.

Are you vying for the Cantankerous Noob of the Year award? You asked a vague question, managed to eke out a few helpful answers despite not wanting to admit that there was good reason for a certain amount of confusion, and now want to bite the hand that fed you? This is an established community of true enthusiasts, and while we're all welcome of course, yourself included, I don't think you've participated enough here to blithely dismiss some of the more experienced posters like that. Not, that is, if you want to feel truly welcome, and continue to get the assistance you seek. No need to be so prideful. We all get a bollicking here from time to time. Cheers,

Rob

[plunk111]

Rob... Chill... Seriously...

[Rob Sharer]

See what I mean? Bollickings all 'round.


R

[Denny]

Vell, if der's anyt'ing ve got lots of it's da bollickings, innit?

[MTGuru]

Oh, sorry. I thought we were still in the whistle forum.

[Denny]

[talasiga]

......
PS: What about "Corblimey" then?

K.

Well I have lived in Australia for nearly 50 years
in two of its largest cities and in country areas.
I have met no one who has uttered that ever.
Not even some neighbours I once had who said "hooroo" and
"hurray" for goodbye.

On the other hand "if the cap fits" is heard much
although I don't like to use it.

[toughknot]

Hey, Der goes Schultze!



I have the DVD

[keithsandra]

Vell, if der's anyt'ing ve got lots of it's da bollickings, innit?