That looks like a beauty Rama, I was beginning to think I had the only one, must be worth around £15,000 or more!rama wrote:here's a couple of pics of my boosey pp 8key in 'f'
Flute in f?
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Re: Flute in f?
In Galicia these are called "Requinta" and are played along with Galician pipes. Search that term on YouTube and you will see some examples in use. The traditional ones usually have one key, and are essentially the European simple system flute, in F - nothing special.
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Hammy Hamilton and Dave Copley make great F flutes as well.
I'll be getting myself a Copley F or an F/G combo one of these days if I can keep one in the shop long enough to bond (it would take about a half hour for irreversible bonding).
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Re: Flute in f?
Another band flute maker, I remember seeing their site when looking for keyed Bb band flutes.
AΩ Band Flutes
They have a 6 key for £750.
http://www.millyard-molem.com/images/F_low_res.jpg
Can be made just, equal, high or low.
Some day I'll get a 6 key Bb...
Edit to add it seems Ormiston flutes also makes a keyed F.
http://www.ormistonflutes.co.uk/flutes.html
AΩ Band Flutes
They have a 6 key for £750.
http://www.millyard-molem.com/images/F_low_res.jpg
Can be made just, equal, high or low.
Some day I'll get a 6 key Bb...
Edit to add it seems Ormiston flutes also makes a keyed F.
http://www.ormistonflutes.co.uk/flutes.html
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Re: Flute in f?
thanks, it's quite a blast to play. found it in a junk shop. i didnt know they were so rare - guess i got lucky. interestingly, the case comes with a little belt loop presumably so it can be attached to your belt as you march along and play the flute ...Holmes wrote:That looks like a beauty Rama, I was beginning to think I had the only one, must be worth around £15,000 or more!rama wrote:here's a couple of pics of my boosey pp 8key in 'f'
wish i had that lovely lot of flutes of yours....
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I love my Tipple in F. Sounds good, light weight, nearly indestructible, what more could you ask?
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I have an antique keyless in F. I like to play it as it gives me a taste of things to come ( if I practice!) - namely, never running out of puff and never getting achy fingers, flying over ornamentation deftly. I can play it faster and for longer than my Prattenish D flute. It's good for morale! By the way Norman that is one Handsome roll call of good looking flutes.....I have lingered over the picture lingeringly.....
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Rama, don't let enyone convince you that this one isn't special - listen to track 19 of CD1 the WFO CD Vol 2.
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Let's make it easy for people:Holmes wrote:Rama, don't let enyone convince you that this one isn't special - listen to track 19 of CD1 the WFO CD Vol 2.
Regards
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19. Tom McElvogue (3:27 Reels) Thrush in the Storm/The Cacodemon/The Watchmaker
w/Paddy Kerr (bouzouki, guitar, bodhran)
The Cacodemon composed by Jackie Daly
F Flute made by Boosey & Co., courtesy of Norman Holmes
and 30-second MP3 sound sample at http://www.worldtrad.org/WFO2_CD2.htm
So, Norman, are you going to be making any F flutes?
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Hi Kevin
If we ever did, & that's unlikely now, it'd be an identical copy of the Prattens F. We do have all of the reamers and other tools, sadly, just not the time.
Regards
H
If we ever did, & that's unlikely now, it'd be an identical copy of the Prattens F. We do have all of the reamers and other tools, sadly, just not the time.
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Re: Flute in f?
F Flutes = FUN!!!
They are just such a lark to play. They fit the hands wonderfully and are just soooo responsive. They possess a wonderful lyrical tone that is simply enchanting...
Here's a picture of my boxwood Germanic 4-key in F (no maker's mark). Think of it a splendid alto in the Vienna Boys Choir as opposed to a Large Bombastic British. tenor. It plays very much like a little keyed traverso. I also like the keys, particularly on the RH section: has the G# and the Fnat-key is on the audience's side.
They are just such a lark to play. They fit the hands wonderfully and are just soooo responsive. They possess a wonderful lyrical tone that is simply enchanting...
Here's a picture of my boxwood Germanic 4-key in F (no maker's mark). Think of it a splendid alto in the Vienna Boys Choir as opposed to a Large Bombastic British. tenor. It plays very much like a little keyed traverso. I also like the keys, particularly on the RH section: has the G# and the Fnat-key is on the audience's side.
Keep on Tootin!
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Nice flute Jordan, I bet that is just a kick to play.
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Re: Flute in f?
I have an antique, by Butler. Middle D's a bit touchy; I like the lightness of it though. Rick Wilson shows a Cloos in F, with, I think, 10 keys. If I could pick up the same I'd have Cloos flutes in every pitch - LP (C#), Eb, Bb fife, piccolo. Quite the ensemble.
11 keys. One of my LP Cloos - Clooses? - has a B foot, weighs a ton, like playing a car's drive shaft. Those German style flutes are pretty thick bodied; in an F flute that wouldn't be such a problem.
11 keys. One of my LP Cloos - Clooses? - has a B foot, weighs a ton, like playing a car's drive shaft. Those German style flutes are pretty thick bodied; in an F flute that wouldn't be such a problem.
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Pictures of my newly acquired RC&Co 8-key F Flute here.
It's nice..... and will be nicer when fixed up!!!!!
It's nice..... and will be nicer when fixed up!!!!!
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