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Hi All,

Time for my occasional, shameless, commercial posting. :)

Thanks, as always, to Dale for the venue.

Several new flute and Whistle makers have joined the Team at Irishflutestore.com

I'm now Carrying Hammy Hamilton Practice Flutes. They are truly amazing and I'm not sure why they aren't getting more press.

Also Skip Healy has gotten on board...great guy.

The others on the Roster are:

Terry McGee
M&E Flutes (wooden or polymer)
Desi Seery
Sweetheart
Michael Copeland
Ronaldo Reyburn
Erle Bartlett (Black Diamond)
Jerry Freeman
Noah Herbison (Laughing Whistles)
Cavallaro Cases
Grey Larsen
Kevin Krell (Wooden FLute Obsession CDs)

It really has been fun corresponding with all who have dropped a line. Thanks for the support.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled threading. :D

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a practice flute for about the price of a high-end whistle.

How can ya lose?

And I think many of us here can highly recommend Doc Jones....:party:

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Whistlin'Dixie wrote:a practice flute for about the price of a high-end whistle.

How can ya lose?

And I think many of us here can highly recommend Doc Jones....:party:

Mary
It really was amazing to me when I played the first one yesterday. I couldn't believe he was getting such extraordinary results from such simple materials. Just goes to show how important that embouchure cut is to a flute.

Hammy could probably make an awesome flute from an old gym sock.


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Hey, I wanna picture of Hammy's practice flute! I looked at Hammy's website, too, and just got the infamous red X symbol instead of a picture.

Disclaimer - I'm not planning to buy one, but I'm darn curious what they look like.

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The red box used to be a picture :) and let's just say it was all about function, not form


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Jayhawk wrote:Hey, I wanna picture of Hammy's practice flute! I looked at Hammy's website, too, and just got the infamous red X symbol instead of a picture.

Disclaimer - I'm not planning to buy one, but I'm darn curious what they look like.

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I wouldn't mind seeing one either. Doc maybe you can take a pic for use.
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Post by Lambchop »

How 'bout some measurements, too? Are these suitable for teeny hands, or are they more on the size of a Tipple?
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Is it conical?
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Think of a realy big blue top Gen whistle in low D, now put a delrin embouchure on it and you have it as I recall.

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Is this in D? I thought Hammy's practice flutes were in G.
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jim stone wrote:Is this in D? I thought Hammy's practice flutes were in G.
Per the website, he makes them in both G and D. I don't know whether they're conical or not.
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Image

OK here's a picture. I put one on the website as well.

The headjoint has an embouchure cutaway which can't be seen very well.

They are not conical but cylindrical. The diameter is narrower than an Olwell bamboo or a Tipple. Holes are not offset and needn't be.

Holes spacing is somewhere between a McGee Pratten and a McGee Rudall perfected. Some of the holes are slightly smaller than either.

It's quite manageble. I think you'd have to have really small hands to have trouble with one.

This batch is in the key of Low-D. Hammy makes Gs as well.

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Patrick - Thanks for putting up the picture. That would have been the ideal flute to start out on, and probably makes a dandy travel flute, too.

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Post by Fishie »

Hey Doc,

Do you ever plan on carrying Hammy's wooden flutes?
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