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Simply set the cork in a position such that a smooth octave jump, up or down, can be made with the least amount of embouchure change. Yup, that's all there is to it. That is, when the cork is in just the right place, octave transitions are at their easiest, just follow your ears. Are you suggesting...

http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/Stopper.html Do you find it odd that you saw no impact in the lowest octave? Did you retune the flute to put the low D in tune after moving the stopper? Intuitively I'd expect to see a delta proportional to the frequency of the played note (as your graph roughly shows fr...

While moving the cork will affect overtones it also affects tuning of higher notes much more than lower ones, and so is used to get the 3 octaves in tune. So you really need to start looking at the 3rd ocatave as well not just the first two. Call me a slacker but since I never use the 3rd octave I'...

I wanted to characterize the impact that cork position has on flute tuning, so I used RTTA to look at the tuning of a couple of flutes with the cork at 0.5 bore diameter, 1.0 bore diameter and 1.5 bore diameter. As expected, there was some variability, but pushing the cork back consistently lowered ...

kev899 wrote: Apparently,the eccentric,evasive genius that is Mr.Murray is planning on modifying a baroque oboe so it would play with normal flute fingering

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I don't think you can get the flute fingerings in the second octave with a reeded instrument, though.

"The bad news, Madam, is that your flute is suffering from 39 cents of flat foot, octave dislocation approaching 17 cents, low octave tilt at 35 cents and 12 cents of top end droop. The analysis is coming through now ....wait for it ... ah, just as I thought! Firewood." "Odd -- it wa...

FWIW, I understand the point that MTGuru is making -- simply that by having a consistent and reproducible approach to how the flute is set up and played, we limit the independent variables that affect tuning and focus in more reliably on the impact of the flute itself. Graeme seems to believe that a...

The First Rule of RTTA Club is: You do not talk about (or post graphs of) modern maker's flutes. Not without their permission, anyway. Although I don't think that Mr. Olwell need be concerned in this case. I'm not sure I totally agree with this rule at any rate. Fundamentally I don't see any differ...

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And a less attractive fish would be hard to find!

Doug surely knows this, but it is worth mentioning that PVC pipe is manufactured to exterior dimensions and minimum wall thickness. The interior dimension of (say) 3/4" Schedule 40 is nominally 0.824" but the actual dimension will vary a surprising amount depending upon the manufacturer. I...

It would be interesting to see how consistent the plots are for a single flute across different players, and/or for the same player at different times. My own experiments suggest that there is quite a bit of variability (although that may say more about my own flute skills than anything else). These...

Ro3b wrote:If I play C natural with exactly the same breath pressure I use for B, of course it's going to be out of tune no matter what fingering I use.

Why "of course"?

GaryKelly wrote: Switch off your computer. Go play your flute.

Advice from the "Do as I say, not as I do" school.

Thanks for the information, Jem. I still find beeswax too difficult to use alone, but I made a mix of beeswax and a softer, sticky wax (from a toilet ring seal as recommended elsewhere) that is at least workable, although still a little too soft. On the other thread, Loren mentions hard waxes that r...

I'm interested to know from those who have the system up and running whether they see any difference in results when they are playing tunes vigorously compared to playing scales and intervals more studiously? The plots I've looked at show some pretty clear differences. I've taken to playing both sc...