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ARGHH!...I just got a crack in the barrel of my Sam Murray Flute :cry: If someone could recommend a good woodwind repairer in the Toronto, Canada area it would be greatly appreciated. How about Forbes Christie of Windward Flutes in Nova Scotia? http://www.windwardflutes.com/restoration.html I am su...

It is important to pull the sleeve on the barrel, to release the pressure on the shrinking wood, some repairers will opt to pin the crack, which is a very bad idea. Another option is to wedge wood in the crack, but pulling the sleeve and boring out the socket and grafting new wood is the best possib...

Put cork grease on the tenons and it will slide right on.
BTW cheap cork grease: get a toilet seal from the hardware store, life time supply of cork grease!

Here is a Boosey Eb I made a while back. Hope the Summers flute works out.

Here is a nice stable flute:

Hard to beat a good delrin and silver keyless flute, for taking on that campping trip...

You can do a flute cane!

I got a few of the roughed out pieces on eBay a while back, it is nice to have good seasoned pre-drilled sections...

Good luck on the knee surgery Casey!

Many thanks for your comments. I am new to these types of forums so belief it or not I was struggling in the wee small hours of this morning to upload images to this site. I think I have now via instagram but I am waiting for the image to be ok'd by the moderators. The instrument has a hairline cra...

This will give you a lot of detail: http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/Purse-pads_or_Elastic-Balls.htm Bob It just so happened that when hewas compiling the info on the elastic balls, I was restoring one of the flutes made by the author of the article, Thomas Lindsey so I disected one of his original pads...

I have a flute from 1840, rather like a small-holed Rudall. The pad on the Eb key isn't sealing, and maybe it's time for all the pads to be replaced. However the repair fellow says he doesn't work on purse-style pads, if that's what I've got. Please tell me about purse-style pads, e.g. what are the...

Ok thank, now I know hot to measure the stating distance!!! :thumbsup: Ideally, you want the first and second octave to be in tune with each other, I check the A in both octaves. If it is a Rudall design, it will be likely that it will play best around 21mm like Kevin said. Pratten flutes will not ...

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Haven’t posted flute photos for a while. This is my HF Meyer flute made in Hamburg, Germany. The most copied flute, this is one of the originals. They usaully have ivory heads, but this is one of those rare nes that has a wooden head. It is made from Madagascar Rosewood. These flute have a very loud...