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Yep, greenspiderweb... Jon C's flute... the story of Jon's flute... I wouldn't have believed it if you told me that I would find myself in this situation... so, boy, am I glad I put my name down for his touring flute :D - what a jewel it is amongst flutes, and I consider myself lucky that it is stil...

Oh, dear, oh dear... so now I must save up for one of your keyed flutes too :P ... and here I thought I will be done buying flutes as soon as I'll receive your keyless :swear: .... well, what was the year... 2012... that gives me... well... about 5 years starting in a couple of months so I better st...

Sorry, I forgot to add that although I have mentioned a guide price that I'm not inflexible and open to reasonable offers.

Hi All :) With a heavy heart I've made the decision to give up my Seery Delrin flute for adoption :( in order to raise funds to purchase one of Jon C's Blackwood Rudalls (see my post in thread on 'touring flute' http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=32309&start=90&sid=46da39563266058b6bd...

Hi All :) , Here's the latest update on Jon's blackwood Rudall touring flute: It's quite incredible really how this flute and I are hitting it off :) - I know there is this controversy about the player versus flute argument, and I really don't want to put fuel to the fire here but the strange thing ...

Hi All :) Just a few minutes ago the postman delivered Jon's Rudall blackwood flute and what a lovely flute it is :) My intention was to oil it first and to give it a bit of TLC but curiosity got the better of me :oops: , and so I assembled the flute and played just a couple of tunes on it; and I mu...

Jim and Chas.... thanks a million for the advice... I found that very helpful

Warm regards,

Vanessa

Thanks, chas, I didn't know that it depends on the type of flute one plays whether one can use crossfingering. I play a large hole flute, a Hammy, so it looks crossfingering isn't all that useful - in this case any tips for a beginner with a still floppy embouchure on how to successfully half-hole i...

Hi :) Can anyone tell me the common ways of crossfingering the following accidentals like Gsharp, fnat, Bflat, Eflat on a keyless flute? I'm okay with Cnat and I know about half-holing but I would love to learn more about the option of crossfingering and what to look out for when trying to do it. Th...

Hi Gary :) , Thanks for posting the results - just read them - wow - amazing :boggle: , and I must say I'm glad to know I'm not quite as mad as I thought although I clearly didn't know some of the flutes were played more than once. Well, and to tell you since you wondered about my age - I just turne...

When this thread started I thought as a beginner it was just a bit of harmless fun and so I happily played along with it but now I've realised there is such a thing as a two camp divide which seem to ruffle quite a few feathers, so ever since I read this thread, I can't get this children's story out...

Thanks a million, everyone :) - the explanations were most helpful and thanks Father Emmet for writing out some of the arpeggios and to jimstone for sharing some of the arpeggio excercises; also I found it most interesting that the word derives from the Italian for harp. Vanessa PS Not sure though h...

What a fascinating experiment :boggle: ! I'm only a beginner with no musical background and my musical hearing skills are pretty poor so when I listened I only heard 6 different flutes but I'm sure I'm way off here and I lack the confidence to comment because I'm not good with jargon re tone and tim...

Hi :) , I decided to start a new post since I didn't want to hijack jim stones thread on arpeggios, yet it is that very post which prompted me to ask this question which I'm sure sounds ridiculous to those who understand music :oops: . Well, the thing with me is that I'm still very much a beginner h...

Good for you, Kelcat, and don't forget to keep us posted !

And Barry - absolutely, you are half ways there and the rest is only a plane ticket away