Whistlin'Dixie wrote:Slayer wrote:
I do not want to refuse from Hamilton only because of one note. The sound of this flute is absolutely surprising and is pleasant to me very much!
In my opinion, there is nothing quite like the sound of a Hammy, or the feel of it in one's hands. That flute can really blow me away!
That said, I too, noticed a bit of a "problem" with certain notes, at first. Surprisingly, the more I played it, the less I noticed it. I believe I compensated for the "off" notes, somehow, without really noticing how I was doing it. Maybe I blew a bit differently, maybe I unconciously changed my emboucher while I played, whatever. if I didn't play it for a few days I lost my emboucher, I guess, and then the flute would sound "off" again for awhile.
I could verify this with my tuner, FWIW, and also from my recordings of myself playing along with CD's.
Anyway, I have heard from some folks who say they never played a Hammy that was out of tune. I think those are the folks who have the emboucher we are all striving for.....
I haven't got it yet, so I'm still working on it.
M
Oh, yeah, sorry. Playing wooden flute 5 years now
No sound files to share thus far... so please don't listen to my advice, I don't know what I'm talking aboot....
With beloved out of tune instruments, I also found the more
I played the thing, the better it sounded. If I stopped for a few
days and came back to it,
it sounded out of tune again. In my case I reached the
conclusion that I had simply learned to hear the out of
tune instrument as in tune--after all, what's 'in tune' really,
except what we're used to?
I do wonder if what we've run into is or is not
common for Hammy's flutes. The flute I played
sounded wonderful--except it was pretty out of tune.
Slayer has it too. But that's two flutes. Kevin's
flute is fine. I doubt that there is some slight
problem here--the tuning problems, when they appear,
follow precisely
the configuration of tuning problems in the 19th
century flutes.
I agree with Kevin about the slight flatness of the Olwell
Pratten Fsharp (the only Olwell I really know), but
the Hammy's Fsharp flatness exceeded that considerably.
Just to be clear I think these are great flutes.
anybody know what's going on?