I've drained a few drams the last few years but I wouldn't call myself an expert.
I have my M&E flute here, a bottle of 15 y.o. Glenfiddich and a bottle of 12 y.o. The Glenlivet, the cork of the Glenfiddich was to big for the bore and the Glenlivet was to thin. I suppose that could be fixed, but at present, I do believe the whisky's needs them better than the flute.
Hmmm....Mayhaps Scotch isn't just the right thing for a Irish (polymer) flute..
I've just been digging in the cork box here (an large and ancient Tibetan Ma Jong container which was once filled to the brim with gloriously decorated ivory pieces...a veritable treasure...now turned into hippie jewlery on the west coast...the shame of it all !) and turned up a couple of wine stoppers with plastic ends....both corks too big (although the Taylor California Cellars wouldn't look too bad) and lacking that certain penasche (get out the spell checker Murphy)
Maby brandy ???...there's a lot of classy advertising in that area
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"I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't;
only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... "
Tell us something.: I've been playing whistle for a very long time, but never seem to get any better than I was about 10 years ago. I'm okay with that. :)
Ahh..."the beautiful hollow by the broad bay"...sure sounds right.....I'll investigate that possibility for sure !
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"I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't;
only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... "
Interesting info on the carbon fiber angle. It would be interesting to try one of these out, just to see what they really are like. It's interesting actually, I can remember some discussion a few years ago about using carbon fiber for UP chanter reeds. It was agreed that CF's properties and workability made it the first truly viable synthetic chanter reed material. Unfortunately, just the development cost alone make it prohibitive, since the UPs, for all the current popularity, are still very much an esoteric instrument. Only mass production would make this a possibility.
Very cool, like someone said in the Woodenflute list, "looks like Robocop's flute". The only person i know who has played one, said that it sounds good, but not good enough to justify the price.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!
--Wellsprings--
....Glenfiddich...?!?! What's that got to do with Islay Whisky...?...grrrr
Do you know these guys have 100 000 000 litres of Whisky in store at the time? Their sheer stock puts them as far from an Islay distillery they may as well be on the moon...
Right !....not a pure drop in it.....might as well use it for diesel fuel (the price of peat being what it is) I'm sure no no player of the Irish plastic (sorry...polymer) flute would want that sort of cork bouncing around inside (even if it would fit)
What would future archeologists think when they dug up some unsuspecting player, his indestructable polymer (got it this time) flute cradled gently in his bony arms (or wormy bones...I gotta get a proofreader), surrounded by a bed of bottles with indeciferable names arrayed (perhaps one stuffed with a copy of Zookman comics ?) in some archane but respectful manner............where was I ?..........Oh yay, there we go.......buried oddly under all this they find something all to common....(you know whats coming. Don't you)..a bottle of Glenfiddich.
"Ah well".......they sez......."no historical value. Poor bugger probably tried to use the cork over in that stick of his. Grab that thing will ye Murphy. They never wear out. "
603/329-7322
"I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't;
only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... "
Does that mean one cannot play pure drop if the cork is wrong in your polymer flute? Now I'll have to pop out the cork in my Seery to see what it is...
I'm planning on ordering a polymer keyless M&E Rudall in D and was wondering if someone could tell me if there are any options I should get other than the metal joint rings? Or do I even need those?
You don't have to get the joint rings on a polymer flute, they do look nice but they are basically decoration as the joints are perfectly stable and safe without them.
He doesn't offer his sculptured embouchure on the Rudall & Rose model, so if you're going keyless there aren't really any other options to consider.
I think you'll enjoy that flute. Mine is quite good.
Didn'y get the rings either..really decoration. What I did do was go down to the local junk jewlery sore and get a wide Mexican silver ring that would jam over the right hand and foot joint. I never take them apart anyway, and it makes a good pinky rest....makes the flute balance exactly too !
Get the leatherette case...nice for slipping in a pocket.
603/329-7322
"I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't;
only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... "
