A Sale [Rose, tenor rec*] and its REASON!
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- Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.
I did not see prices either. Wald, where did you find that price?
Yahoo converter give a bit over $2400 US today.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=3800&s=DEM&t=USD
Yahoo converter give a bit over $2400 US today.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=3800&s=DEM&t=USD
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- Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.
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That is a very interesting observation, Wombat. I knew there was something about the high end thing that was bugging but just could not put my finger on it. I think that was it.
That is a very interesting observation, Wombat. I knew there was something about the high end thing that was bugging but just could not put my finger on it. I think that was it.
Wombat wrote:Wouldn't the very same people laugh at you if you turned up to a session with a cheap plastic flute or concertina? There's something weird going on here.Azalin wrote:Eh! The irish would laugh at that one... and they think a wooden whistle is too much already!
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I don't yet know about Boehm flute fingering; my first student model is in the mail as I write. What I can say is that saxophone fingering is a very natural extension of whistle fingering. Obviously you have to deal with accidentals but the appropriate keys are conveniently located for fluent fingering. But the basic fingering of most of a C major scale follows fairly closely the fingering of a D whistle, except taht F# on whistle sounds as F on saxophone. Right hand pinky deals with low C, B, Bb and Eb. Years of playing sax meant that I got whistle fingering immediately and knew exactly where I was straight away. The same would work in reverse.
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The price is just under 2,000 Euros, so yes it would be around 2,400+ dollars.Tony wrote:I didn't see any prices.
It's a lot of money, but certainly not overpriced considering the worksmanship. The wood has no ferrules. The tuning slide is wooden, but using three neoprene O rings instead of the traditional cork assembly.
All the hardware is nickel-silver, thick silver-plated. Some of the holes, notably the topmost octave vents are "chimney" metal inserts. The annular keys ("open" keys) go over wood chimneys laid overt the main tube.
The head is made of plastic, for mechanical reasons. The windway itself is lined with cedar (red cedar, I reckon) both in the head proper and the windway removable "lid" (attached by a sax ligature). There's also a wood lid supplied, matching the whistle's wood. Changing does alter the sound colour.
So does the adjustable windway (Strathmann's patent too--well, there are three of his used on this alto alone): with the set screw fully in, the sound is quite breathy, very trad whistle like. Turning the screw out reduces air demand, increases back pressure, gets a reedy sound at the extreme.
Finally, there's a very sensitive, chin-operated button, which opens a small vent inside the head, below the window. This allows to gradually raise the pitch, up to a quarter-tone. Do what you'll fancy with it:
blow "piano" while staying in tune,
bend "jazz" tones,
play chromatic notes (i.e. make the G# higher than the Bb)
etc.
Mr Strathmann is a very nice person, and told me he always tries to keep two instruments in stock, one in rosewood and the other in afr. blackwood. I took rosewood and got it by mail a few days after I transfered the money. There was a nice hard case, velvet-lined, like those you usually see for Boehm flutes, with some joint grease and a clarinet-type swab (chamois piece with a weighted string).Tony wrote:Zoob... ? also, is this instrument stocked or did you have to wait?
Before buying, I had a long correspondence with a Danish jazzman called Hans Ulrik--see http://www.hansulrik.dk/
Jens (or any other in Denmark), did you ever hear him ?
He plays saxes (and bass clarinet) as well as two Strathmann flutes, the alto (F) and one soprano (C), which he has had for over ten years. He highly recommended the flutes, and I purchased a record from him ("Danish standards"), to hear the alto.
There's a short clip of him on the soprano you can hear from his site here http://www.hansulrik.dk/listen_under.html (Flash 6 plug-in needed).
Now, we're both working on getting Mr Strathmann to start working on a Tenor C or--why not?--bass in F.
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