Aulos Stanesby Flute

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Aulos Stanesby Flute

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Evening all, I just purchased an Aulos Stanesby flute, and I'm having difficulty fingering the f natural and f sharp to make the difference in pitch noticeable, whichever fingering I use, there is minimal difference between the two notes. I have played all sorts of flutes including a Folkers and Powell Denner copy so I have some experience with forked fingering. Solutions anyone? Thanks.
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Re: Aulos Stanesby Flute

Post by Tehmeena »

Hey there! I've had a similar issue with my Stanesby. It took a bit of practice, but focusing on embouchure placement and air speed really helped me nail those F naturals and sharps. Don't worry, you'll get
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Re: Aulos Stanesby Flute

Post by pancelticpiper »

I played Baroque flute many years ago at Uni and my teacher had a flute where the hole was made so that the forked F natural was bang-on (not needing flattening with your embouchure) but he had to finger F# forked something like

xxx | oxx | x

in other words G flattened to F#.
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