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I don't play much ITM at all on my simple-system flutes. I play a lot of O'Carolan and Playford tunes, but I also love Telemann and Faure. I play the baroque stuff on baroque flutes, but I have a six-key and also a small-holed Irish flute with one key that's fully chromatic with a little lipping. I ...

Some makers definitely do a better job with the E note than others. I have two other somewhat conflicting points: The player can compensate quite a bit for the veiled E note. It's usually much less (intrinsically) veiled than the cross-fingered notes on a baroque flute. Listen to a good baroque play...

Blackwood works pretty similarly to boxwood. It's denser and oilier, but the grains are both extremely tight. If you're pleased with the way it turned out this time, I see no reason to change anything. On the other hand, depending on your setup, if you noted the drill size needed, you might just wan...

Oh, I was likely trying to pull the ring off. : (

I've updated the current stock on my web page: https://whorfinwoods.com/featured-one/ There are some seconds, but I've also listed the current batch of d's -- there's plenty of stock at the IFS, and so I figure till late in the month I'll sell some firsts myself. Send email to shorfinwoods (at) gmai...

What does it mean? "It's not the flute, it's the player" seems to be the conclusion. That's certainly what I draw from your test, but it's a little more subtle than that. I'm sure if I did the same test, I'd get the same results. One of my teachers said to me many years ago, "You hav...

stiofan wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:02 pm For the maximum cardiovascular workout, don't forget the hyperbass flute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbass_flute

Here's a sorta buddy of mine on the contrabass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QSQMyB1C0g

I'm listening to his album with Eugene O'Donnell now.

I've had a key get tight from a little movement in the wood. With the permission of the maker, I sanded just a little off the inside of the blocks and it was fine after that.

This was an outlier - not at all typical. Must have gotten lost or hijacked on a train: I shipped a Wooden Flute Obsession CD (1 volume only) to Finland on March 16 by USPS International First Class. Just cleared Miami yesterday. 5-6 weeks and still hasn't left the U.S. I sent a whistle to someplac...

Wow, that one in the middle is ridiculous. Knowing the rest are d's, I'd think it was a G. The Hermit Hill has a wall so thick I'd think they'd need to undercut the tone holes.

I tend to think of something much less than 1/2" or 12.7 mm as narrow bore and anything much above that as wide bore. The Burke wide-bore brass is around 14.3 mm (9/16), and that's about as wide a bore as I think is practical for a d whistle. 16 mm for a d whistle is well beyond anything I'd th...

Here is a more recent fado singer..it clips at one point makes her sound like she is shouting but anyway... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yejaUUBqtr0 The steel strung Portuguese guitar is partly derived from the English guitar, it is said seafarers brought it and its influence to Portugal where cit...

Temporary repair: put a rubber band around the flute body between the key pivot and the hole it goes to. Experiment with different rubber bands and how many times to wrap them around. I used that for a couple of years on an antique no-name flute and it worked great. I hope you're able to stay safe.

Algarve is a special place, an unusual and mysterious place also. I would not know where to start, it is sort of abandoned in modern terms, some tourism but not much, with its boom bust that we saw in southern europe. I used to live in Spain before, but the country was getting overrun in the touris...