Doctor, there's a tuning slide in my foot!
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Doctor, there's a tuning slide in my foot!
A friend of mine from France just sent me this photo of a foot joint from one of Tom Aebi's new designs...apparently this is based on something Rudall and Rose used to do. Three bottom keys (is the bottom note a B?) and a tuning slide at the end of the foot joint. I've never seen anything like this myself. What does the tuning slide do? Does it allow you to change the lowest notes?
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Re: Doctor, there's a tuning slide in my foot!
[quote="bradhurley"]A friend of mine from France just sent me this photo of a foot joint from one of Tom Aebi's new designs...apparently this is based on something Rudall and Rose used to do. Three bottom keys (is the bottom note a B?) and a tuning slide at the end of the foot joint. I've never seen anything like this myself. What does the tuning slide do? Does it allow you to change the lowest notes?
It must be to tune the lower notes in the foot C#/C/B. Looks cool, but would make a heavy foot, so I guess it would be a "foot doctor".
Jon
It must be to tune the lower notes in the foot C#/C/B. Looks cool, but would make a heavy foot, so I guess it would be a "foot doctor".
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it would be to correct the bottom notes on a flute that was designed to be played in a few different pitches.
Unless one is after a correct replica, I'm surprised that a modern maker would bother with this, since we just play at 440, I'm even surprised that modern makers bother with the Pewter plus on the foot, but I guess it has more to do with authenticity then playability (I hope these are real words ).
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Unless one is after a correct replica, I'm surprised that a modern maker would bother with this, since we just play at 440, I'm even surprised that modern makers bother with the Pewter plus on the foot, but I guess it has more to do with authenticity then playability (I hope these are real words ).
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Re: Doctor, there's a tuning slide in my foot!
Would a lead foot help me play faster?Jon C. wrote: It must be to tune the lower notes in the foot C#/C/B. Looks cool, but would make a heavy foot, so I guess it would be a "foot doctor".
Jon
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Here's a foot extender on a Rod Cameron Baroque flute.
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The device in question used to be called a register, or foot register. It was introduced at the time that different bodies (corps de rechange) were used to give a range of pitch. If you changed to a different corps you also tweaked the foot register and the stopper position to optimise the tuning of the flute throughout the range.
The range of the foot register is usually pretty short, so I doubt if it is intended to pull the low B down to Bb on the flute illustrated. That could be achieved by a plug-on section which would look the same but be longer.
I've often wondered about having a foot register so that players could set the bottom D as flat as they want depending upon how much push they want to put into that note. Of course you can always flatten the bottom D a little if you want by pulling the foot out on its tenon.
Terry
The range of the foot register is usually pretty short, so I doubt if it is intended to pull the low B down to Bb on the flute illustrated. That could be achieved by a plug-on section which would look the same but be longer.
I've often wondered about having a foot register so that players could set the bottom D as flat as they want depending upon how much push they want to put into that note. Of course you can always flatten the bottom D a little if you want by pulling the foot out on its tenon.
Terry
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Tunable foot joints
Brad,
I have a Richard Potter boxwood flute with a tunable foot joint, which Potter patented. Pulling it out reveals numbered lines that correspond to numbered lines in the head-joint slide; apparently the idea was to set both slides to the same number in order to get the flute in perfect tune.
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I have a Richard Potter boxwood flute with a tunable foot joint, which Potter patented. Pulling it out reveals numbered lines that correspond to numbered lines in the head-joint slide; apparently the idea was to set both slides to the same number in order to get the flute in perfect tune.
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