Easiest Simple flute to play?

[keithsandra]

Which is the easiest, most satisfying simple flute you've ever played, and why?

This question will probably raise a lot of qualifiers, but go ahead anyway ...

[ImNotIrish]

My humble opinion is that the most satisfying flutes to play are by no means the easiest!
Arbo

[Denny]

fipple flute

next forum up


playin' well is an other matter

[libraryman]

Easiest to get a full sound out of--Copley Delrin with rounded rectangle embouchure.

Hardest to get a good sound out of--Copeland. (But I know two fine players who really like their's. Mine was a later model and a real bear).

That's my straight answer to what I think is a fair question which will probably be dismissed by some who want to tell everyone how beyond thinking about that they are. Still, I do agree that what is the easiest and what has the best tone are two entirely different questions. That's not to say the Copley is not a very good flute, just that where it really delivers in the way it is designed to.

[RudallRose]

There is absolutely no substitute for a well-developed embouchure.
Every well-made flute plays easily with one.

Failing that....the simplest to get a sound out of.....
is a penny whistle.

there are no shortcuts

[meemtp]

What David said...

[mutepointe]

My question is why you are asking this question. If you're looking for flute playing to be simple, it is, all you got to do is pick one up and start working at it.

[MTGuru]

My question is why you are asking this question. If you're looking for flute playing to be simple, it is, all you got to do is pick one up and start working at it.

Mutepointe, I think "simple" here means simple system flute, not an assumption that playing the flute is simple.

[Denny]

easy simple, wasn't it....

I'd think that an examination of the word "easy" would be a place to start.

Easy as in drum?
hit it = sound

the rest of it is all uphill, innit?

[mutepointe]

My question is why you are asking this question. If you're looking for flute playing to be simple, it is, all you got to do is pick one up and start working at it.

Mutepointe, I think "simple" here means simple system flute, not an assumption that playing the flute is simple.

Grammar police false arrest.

[Akiba]

Perhaps the question should be, "What is the simplest simple system flute to play?"

Casey Burns' flutes I hear have a less steep learning curve (not sure how else to describe what I think the OP is asking), the Folk Flute, the Standard, or the Rudall. The Large Hole has a steeper curve, methinks, due to the larger air requirement to play it and larger tone holes.

[jim stone]

for me, Olwell Pratten

[Rob Sharer]

for me, Olwell Pratten

Seek ye a grain of salt, gentle reader; brother Jim is having us on, I fear.

Rob

[Doug_Tipple]

After reading the question over carefully, I think that Keith and Sandra were intending to ask, "what is the easiest flute to simply play?" I hope that this clears up the semantic confusion.

[rama]

or ... what is the easiest flute to play simply, but in a satisfying way?