Any Suggestions for a Name?

[waltsweet]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I've been working on the design of a new flute for quite some time, 25 years all told (not steady). It's my Boehm Flute in F above C (or G above D, if you prefer). This SuperFlute can be classified as a Treble Flute. Twenty years ago, I completed one in wood, but it had issues. The new one will be in metal, but with taller toneholes for that wood-flute tone we know and love; the Irish-cut blowhole will help, too. Fingering will be full Boehm System so I can play the contradance (fiddle) repertoire, anything from The Banks in Eb to Calliope House in E as long as I add one sharp to the key signature. The flute would easily match violin's low G; violin's high B would be only partway up the flute's 3rd octave, where there is still a mellow tone with good projection. Yes, I'm trying to get the best of both worlds, and hope to have something to show for my efforts in March.

I tried "DOLCE," a spin off my name, but that was taken by Pearl Flutes. Maybe I should continue my tour of the Counties of Ireland. Some friends suggested "MELODIA" or "FLUTE HARMONIQUE;" these are organ stops. Othere ideas are "SONOROUS" and "CLARABELLA." Jem suggested "MELYS," the Welsh word for Sweet, and from there we had Melissa, Melysant, Millicent and Melyscent. "MELYSANDER" could be argued to mean, 'sweet like a palisander flute with a manly presence.' Melysonorous?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Walt Sweet
http://wdsweetflutes.com/shannon.php

[MTGuru]

"CLARABELLA." ,, "MELYSANDER"

Clarabella sounds like a clown. Melysander sounds like a mealy sander.

How about Deuce? It's your new flute, Flute 2.0. It's a play* on the French "douce", meaning ... sweet. And less likely to be mispronounced as "douche". Which just means shower, of course.

* Works better in American speech than in British phonolects with the epenthetic y-glide ("dyoose") or full palatalization ("juice"). But still a clear enough pun, I think.

[s1m0n]

Is tootsweet still under copyright?

[ghicken]

It's two in the morning, I can't sleep, and I'm playing my SHANNON. Right now my silly mind is thinking 'FLITE' or 'FLYTE', sort of like a light flute.

[Lars Larry Mór Mott]

Liffy?

[waltsweet]

Tootsweet? I'll get on it right away.

[y-nought]

Dulce gets around the fact that Dolce has been used. And there are forms like Dulcet or Dulcetta.

[RudallRose]

An Efflute would be cool, seeing as it's an F flute.

but Effin-Flute would be a bit saucy for some.


congrats, btw, walt...pretty nifty invention an instrument system that works for you.

[I.D.10-t]

Dulcetta.

Seems like there was a Dulcetta Banjo.

Can't wait to see what the new flute looks like.

[Kypfer]

Dulcet

... was used as a brand-name on bakelite-type recorders from Rose, Morris and Co. Ltd., London

[Akiba]

Sounds like a really cool flute. Just a thought for a name: Skylark, since it'll probably be a pretty chirpy little thing.

[MarkusT]

I like Jems suggestion, Melys.
It's nice, clever and easy to remember.

ps. A student of mine brought one of your flutes to a lesson, the "Shannon", I believe.
Wow! I was really impressed by it!

Cheers

[Jonas T Larsson]

Flute in F above C (or G above D, if you prefer).

It's sounds a lot like "I before E except after C". But making an acronym like FaCoGaD would make a terrible name though

Since its a Perfect fourth above the regular flute it would be fun to make a play out of that. But again names like "Perfor", "P4" etc sounds a lot more like labels on drywall panels... Going latin with Quartus might be a bit better.

And btw, I am MarkusTs student with the Shannon. Since I am a total flute beginner I do not have much to compare with, but I do like it a lot indeed. Easy to blow, strong tone, well in tune. Looking forward to develop on it.

[benhall.1]

Not that I can see anybody actually saying this directly, but it looks like there are maybe some people who think that a G treble Boehm system flute hasn't been done before. Actually, it's a standard, if slightly rare, orchestral instrument. It's called a G treble flute. According to Wiki, they are used extensively in Boehm system, silver flute, marching bands in Northern Ireland and Scotland, but I wouldn't know about that, personally. They're certainly used in flute choirs in Gloucestershire, to my personal knowledge.

[waltsweet]

The Treble flutes have indeed been done before; I saw them in Northern Ireland, and I should make the trip to the Finger Lakes in NY to try my friend's examples. Mine is one whole tone lower, and I will be incorporating some "woodflute" construction features. With a flute of this key (a tempered fourth higher), I think that the playing will be easier by adding one sharp to everything, as opposed to one flat. Besides, to match violin's low G, I wanted to do it with "6 fingers down (fingering a D)," rather than having to use the right pinky (as would be necessary on the standard treble flute). The instrument of lower pitch would be one step more flutelike, and less piccolo-like.

My wife has given preliminary approval to "DULCETTA".