flute design

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:46 am

Ok
Many or most of the makers' flutes are based on an old maker's design such as Rudall, Pratten, etc etc. My question is this: Do today's makers have a master/original/whatever that they copy from, or are the dimensions of the Prattens, Rudalls, etc generally well known and easily obtainable? If so, where could a person find the plans for these different styles of flutes?
Thanx

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:30 pm

By the time you finish reading this...

http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/index.html

good luck,
Denny

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:08 pm

Jonathan wrote:Ok
Many or most of the makers' flutes are based on an old maker's design such as Rudall, Pratten, etc etc. My question is this: Do today's makers have a master/original/whatever that they copy from, or are the dimensions of the Prattens, Rudalls, etc generally well known and easily obtainable? If so, where could a person find the plans for these different styles of flutes?
Thanx

The answers are: yes, yes, and several sources, including museums and other flute makers.

Aodhan · Post by **Aodhan** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:50 pm

Jonathan wrote:dimensions of the Prattens, Rudalls, etc generally well known and easily obtainable? If so, where could a person find the plans for these different styles of flutes?
Thanx

Dimensions are available, you can get plans/drawings from museum and other collections, and there are direct measurements of old flutes as well. (See McGee's GLP for one example of a direct copy)

Aodhan

Julia C · Post by **Julia C** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:25 pm

And there's lots of info on http://www.oldflutes.com in case you've not seen it,
Ah, and Edinburgh Uni sell plansheets, at http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/uwl.html although not all the links work on my machine, you can contact them.
enjoy,
Julia C

Nelson · Post by **Nelson** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:00 pm

Hi Jonathan, I sent away to the U. of Edinburgh and got plans for an R&R flute. I have sent copies to a half dozen or so members of this group. It is easy because they copy on a xerox 18inch x 8 1//2 inch sheet. Let me know your street address and I will send you one, if you want to turn a flute.

Nelson

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:23 pm

Wow thanks! I've sent you a private message.

Nelson wrote:Hi Jonathan, I sent away to the U. of Edinburgh and got plans for an R&R flute. I have sent copies to a half dozen or so members of this group. It is easy because they copy on a xerox 18inch x 8 1//2 inch sheet. Let me know your street address and I will send you one, if you want to turn a flute.

Nelson

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:03 am

Thanks for the info everyone.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:17 am

Jonathan, if you're serious about this, you should check the FLUTEMAKERS group at Yahoo.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:45 am

Fantastic. Thanks Glauber

glauber wrote:Jonathan, if you're serious about this, you should check the FLUTEMAKERS group at Yahoo.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:48 pm

Shark in the Morning has a bunch of books on flute design, as well as drawings. http://larkinthemorning.com/category.as ... 0&x=23&y=8
There's lots published on flute design. How much ya got?

djm

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:55 pm

A lot of these plans are very bad. If you want to spend money on a flute plan, i'd highly suggest getting Terry's:
http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/Plans.htm

The usual advice is to try making a recorder first, because it's simpler.

Clive Catterall has a lot of good information on tools and methods for flute making:
http://www.flutes.fsbusiness.co.uk/methods.html

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:37 pm

glauber wrote: The usual advice is to try making a recorder first, because it's simpler.

Glauber,

It's been quite awhile since I've disagreed with you here, so I hope you'll forgive the following out burst

In regards to Glauber's comment above, I must emphatically say: Absolutely, positively, and without any doubt - Untrue!!! A decent recorder is far more complicated to make than a flute, mostly due to the block/windway and ramp/window configurations, which require far more skill and tooling to do properly than a simple embouchure hole. (I'm leaving cosmetics out, which would put a recorders off the scale relative to simple system flutes.)

Loren

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:53 pm

Allrighty then!

It's been a long time since i had a chance to use this image too!

Well, that was what somebody said in flutemakers. I think the idea was that the recorder may be complicated, but it's easier than cutting a flute embouchure, or maybe easier to tune, because there are fewer variables.

But Loren actually makes these things and i don't, so listen to him.

g

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