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The otter-boxes can be found on http://www.otterbox.com. Which model do you have, I have been looking at the cigar-cases and wonder if they are big enough for a Rudall-style 8-key. They look like really nice cases!

/Anders

What i mean is that if you pick up and play a cold flute, it will warm up more faster in the head-joint and more slowly in the far end. I was thinking that this might have an effect since speed of sound is very much temperature dependent, and thus the wavelegth of a certain frequency too /Anders c=3...

I have a collegue working on an acoustic refrigerator, the principle works, but not very efficently, so I doubt that the termal properties of the flute material will make any difference big enough to notice, but who knows... The biggest difference I can think of is the time it takes to warm up the f...

Seems to be this one

http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/dcm:@field(TITLE+@od1(DCM+1038:+++Benedikt+Pentenrieder+++Flute+in+C))

/Anders

Well, recorder is not an easy instrument, takes long time before one can play decent music on one. I don't understand why it is used as an instrument for children, tinwhistle would be much better. But if you are looking for an easy instrumentI would suggest Ukulele, guitar or why not fiddle (it's no...

to my experience the second is very nice 2nd octave C-nat

I go to our anechoic chamber, or our reverberant room, depending on my mood... I will have to play VERY loud to be heard outside them. Unfortunately the air is very dry (<10% sometimes) which is less good.

/Anders, acoustics researcher

They look even better IRL, beautiful workmanship! Personally I really like the look of boxwood ferrules.

Rob: I had a really good time at Karlsson Garage last friday!

/Anders

Thanks for all the nice info and advice. Personally I've used a tiny amount of almond oil my pewters, and it did help the seal. With my short experience the pewters work better the more you use them, don't know if it's the actual seal or my embochure getting used to play those notes :-) thanks, Anders

Usage of modern materials is always an interesting discussion :-), for me personally I like them if its not too visible and does its job in a better way than the old ones. I guess that there might be a difference in the venting between the two, and thus how clearly sounding the D and C# gets? I gues...

Hello I don't think I've introduced myself properly here, my name is Anders and I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I'm a fiddle-player who also plays swedish bagpipes and started on flute (a Tipple) 15 months ago. I recently bought a Clementi from Mr Migoya(a lovely instrument :)), since I wanted a keyed...

Swedsh bagpipes can somtimes overblow one or two notes by halfholing the thumbhole, this with a parallell bore and a single blade reed. More interesting is that on very dry days and a happy reed you can "underblow"; by releasing the pressure on a D-chanter, fingering low C, you can get a h...

Hi Bill Agree with you that that must be a more important issue. Have there been measurements of the impedance of this kind on instruments? I have seen and also been part of measuring different impedances and mobilities of a predecessor of the harpsichord (called Virginal), very interesting but not ...

Hello! Here are some thoughts on vibrations, both perceived ones and some physics Sean: I think the vibrations are there all the time, it is only a matter of sensing them. To my experince, and through lectures from a violin teacher who was very fond of sensing the vigrations from the instrument; You...

Hello I have seen similar sides on organ pipes, it flattens the pitch. It is used reugulary for some types of voicing and intonation, but I don't recall how and on what types of registers (can perhaps ask a collegue the next week). PS how hot water can you use to get the head of a Generation? /Anders