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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...

Around here, it is the emerald ash borer that is devastating the ash trees. https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/110639577/medium.jpeg We are fortunate in having other native trees that still thrive here, like black walnut, in the foreground, and eastern red cedar, in the backgroun...

I'm with Loren on two points: O'Riordans are love-em-or-hate-em whistles. I got some directly from Pat. They were wonderful for what they were, but I found the sound too pure and too loud. As a whistle maker (and Loren has been a recorder maker), I can say for sure, they are not a simple design. A l...

For years, I've been buying reamers from Gammons in Manchester, CT*. The cost has been well-worth the experience it gave me. My preferred design has a right-hand cut and left-hand spiral (RHC, LHS). Cobalt-steel costs a little more (and takes a little longer to deliver) but it lasts much longer; fo...