block or pin aesthetics

[Doc Jones]

I prefer block for the following reasons

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I don't want my flute to look like a clarinet
...

I was once playing a block-mounted Peter Noy Rudall. One of the most beautiful of tooters.

After the concert a lady came up and told me how much she enjoyed my "clarinet". Just no helping some people.

By contrast, no one ever called my Pin mounted Burns rudall a clarinet. Must be the boxwood.

Doc

[I.D.10-t]

Hey, where is the "none" option?

[jemtheflute]

Hey, where is the "none" option?

It's NOT an option!

[eilam]

i love the look of pin mounted keys, and they are much more user friendly (to me, having thick fingers ).
i think my R&R is the first pin mounted R&R?, the keywork on it is amazing.

[talasiga]

Hey, where is the "none" option?

you mean you wanted an option for the visual aesthetics
of nothing?

perhaps an ersatz zen proctology forum for this line of (non) thinking?

[an seanduine]

My experience is limited here: Having played Boehm Clockwork oranges in flutes and picollos
and when I made my escape to wooden flutes I have played a crappy German pin mounted flute, and a recently acquired six key blackwood copy of an early 1800's R&R with elegantly slender keywork in stylishly slender blocks. I like the block-mounted flute. . .but then this is a new romance. . . .

[FromFlanders]

Guilty as charged. All my instruments follow a strict color scheme (black gold/brass maple/spruce). If I can't get it hand made to match, I change it myself. Don't know why. I'll post a picture for ridicule.

I'd love to see a picture of all those together. Not ridiculous at all.
Blocks is my preference - I find the visual interruption of the turned shape rather fascinating, and enjoy running my fingers around all the shapes and crevices ( fidgeting, they call it.)
Annoying when you are trying to mend an old one with broken blocks though - this weekend's project....grafting bits of cocus and whittling them to shape.
FF

[I.D.10-t]

Hey, where is the "none" option?

you mean you wanted an option for the visual aesthetics
of nothing?

perhaps an ersatz zen proctology forum for this line of (non) thinking?

Well if it must have keys, I would prefer one at within reach. I have been looking for a 6 key Bb band flute in A440 for a while now, but still I cannot fine one in arms reach.

Are hybrids out of the question? Some seem to use both.

[talasiga]

well the poll is about LOOKS.
APPEARANCE.

It seems to me that if you had a "hybrid" it would, by default,
fall in the hunk chunky option, wouldn't it?
After all, even one block mount disturbs the sleek and s_xy, doesn't it ?

[ImNotIrish]

I'm bi-mounts! I swing both ways.
Arbo

[iain beag]

I'm a hunky chunky man myself, though sleek and sexy does have its appeal.

Iain

[talasiga]

what about sleek alone?

[Doug_Tipple]

Don't ask me why, but I like the hybrid pin block flutes that I have played. Hybrid seems to be the in word these days. All pins or all blocks, not such a good thing. Better yet, do away with keys alltogether and learn some serious half-holding technique. Yea.

[Aanvil]

I like big blocks and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny...

[iain beag]

Not sure I've seen a hybrid before but wouldn't mind looking at one, might even change my mind, but at the moment I still prefer blocks to pins not that I have anything against pins.