Has anyone seen or played the new Guo Fife?
Does it have simple system fingering?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9IccCXyi1M
It looks look a cool wee thing though priced at 60 quid and marketed as a kids first flute.
I keep hoping Guo will make an 8 keyed affordable great playing flute.
Guo Fife
Guo Fife
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http://irishpiccolo.blogspot.co.uk/?m=0
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david_h
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Re: Guo Fife
http://www.gflute.com/catalog/cata/fife-detaildunnp wrote: Does it have simple system fingering?
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Re: Guo Fife
I just received one of these piccolos this week and I'm impressed! 
The tone and ease of play are very nice, accurate intonation and the F# and Eb holes in the keys work pretty good (they are a little soft spoken, but it doesn't take much push to bring them out). I've been trying to play ITM on it to get used to the F# and I'm improving. I got it to play other genres of music. However the Achilles heel is the Bb, which is veiled and hard to produce cleanly (I'll keep working on it).
I think a hole in the A key might be needed. Bb is such a common note in band music.
Just my experience, yours may vary.
The tone and ease of play are very nice, accurate intonation and the F# and Eb holes in the keys work pretty good (they are a little soft spoken, but it doesn't take much push to bring them out). I've been trying to play ITM on it to get used to the F# and I'm improving. I got it to play other genres of music. However the Achilles heel is the Bb, which is veiled and hard to produce cleanly (I'll keep working on it).
I think a hole in the A key might be needed. Bb is such a common note in band music.
Just my experience, yours may vary.
Keep on Tootin!
Jordan
Jordan