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I am the very happy new owner of this wonderful flute! Thanks, Woody, for making this beauty available!

This German flute collector seems to have fallen for a pretty-looking yet amusical Indian-made flute: http://www.pincusklassik.de/floeten/grosse_indische_floete/index.html I really wonder if he's so naive as to assume that the noise this device emits is an exotic Indian scale? Hindustani and Carnati...

klarnetisto wrote:

Ted wrote:I like the Catalonian tenora, a highly developed and keyed Spanish shawm. There are some youtube videos.

Here's the website I found about a maker of Catalonian shawms:

http://www.tenoresitiblesjoanroca.com/

I like the Catalonian tenora, a highly developed and keyed Spanish shawm. There are some youtube videos. In all my years of searching I've found only one website for a maker of tenoras -- and tibles, the treble shawms of Catalonia. But I can't find it at the moment... will post later. Yes, these ar...

Consider John Hanchet: http://www.hanchet-woodwind.co.uk/index.html http://www.hanchet-woodwind.co.uk/indexe.html He makes shawms in several styles. But his Spanish-style shawms cost quite a bit less than his others, and are really quite good. They cost less because the design is simpler and so less...

I bought one about 20 years ago, one of the original bamboo ones. I found that the secret to making it work well is to forget how small it is! In other words, you have to take as much mouthpiece into your mouth as if you were playing a tenor saxophone or bass clarinet, or it won't sound properly. On...