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Hi, Ok, only a couple of hours after picking up my new M&E from the post office I already have a question :lol: It's a really nice flute(!) and I get a (fairly) sharp sound on all notes in the first two octaves (d-major). But when trying the C-natural I find it a bit "fuzzy" - it's not...

Ooh, an actual owner of one of those alleged flutes in D! What note does it play with just the 6 finger holes covered? If that's D, then it really is a D flute, if it's Eb, then they're falsely marketing them as a D flute. What material is used as the cork in the headjoint? Is it squishy stuff or r...

> Do you maybe have an M&E? No, nothing like that - maybe I was wrong when I wrote "polymer" - it's in fact "ebonite". You can see one via the link below. Anyways - I didn't really buy it believing that this would be a fantastic flute :boggle: - but to try it out. I have read...

Hi all, I've been playing a boehm flute for quite some time (primarily classical) but have recently been looking to irish/traditional music - enjoying playing it very much. Anyway - as you all probably know you can play all musical keys on the boehm quite easily - here I mean like switching from D-m...