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You expect beggars to report income? Take comfort in that he probably paid taxes on the Porsche.

I just want to be sure that I don't make mistakes in my first months, that I have to spend years to correct afterwards. Well, you will make mistakes and you will spend years correcting. (The glass is half empty.) But you will enjoy the challenge and every opportunity to practice is an opportunity t...

Gabriel wrote:...It is hard to believe....

Sadly, it is not.

Addendum:
U.S.: 17.2 to 50.7 per 100000 in 2005 vs. Victoria: 57.9 per 100000 in 2005.

Perfectly normal and will may happen again and again. It's a matter of consistency, which is difficult to achieve in fluting.

...some people... Agreed and indeed universally applicable. Graph this: No no no... you can't expect others to graph and interpret data that is meaningful only to you ("Some have motive to prevent others from knowing.") I'll try anyway. Whistle# Wheeze Penalty 30 Tuning penalty Number of ...

No 2 whistles are exactly alike, but you WILL find that they all fall within a range - this probably describes a statistical bell-curve around the maker's intent. A hand-producer will not release the bottom end of the bell curve. In theory, neither will the mass producer, provided that there is som...

Lovely. Is the tuning barrel new wood? The keys seem a tad yellowish, real silver? Nice work.

Actually, this might explain the cause and the remedy.

Flute Acquisition Disorder

F.A.D. Ouch, that stings.

Didn't watch the clip yet but I bet it's much easier to play a comfortably sized whistle into a computer mic and re-sample down two octaves (aka voice changer).

Keep almond oil and any other drying oil away from the tuning slide and corked tenons.

Tongue less.

A flute with a metal sleeve, in the barrel and/or in the head joint, likely won't crack at sub-freezing temperatures, and that's because metal "shrinks" at a faster rate than wood. However, the opposite is also true, that metal "expands" faster than wood, which is why it's ever ...

Backwards? Yes. 6-key? Eb, Cnat, G#, Long F, Short F. Can't see a Bb. It's possible to play the short F, Eb, and Cnat backwards. Murray? Maybe. Asymmetric blow hole? Yes, based on a sample of two Murrays. Perhaps he got a lefty head? Still, it's possible to get a nice sound playing it backwards.

Henke wrote:...impossible to come to any real scientific conclusions on this subject...

Real scientific conclusions? Yes.

Consensus between flute players and scientists or just amongst flute players themselves? No.