Yet another preparatoty post. I've not done anything to the flute yet, still bothering about the evaluation systems. There's no point collecting data if you are not darn sure what it means.
Yesterday William Bajzek made a good point. With any instrument, and more so with a flute, the player is a very significant part of the system of making sound. It would be ideal to have the player developed to a fairly stable state before using them as a benchmark in the development or tweaking of a flute.
monkey587 wrote:[When you learn to focus your embouchure, it will make a big difference in your intonation and overall pitch. At least find someone with well established technique (5+ years) and have them try out the flute first.
I don't happen to have one handy, so I'm going to use myself. Also, I sorta want a flute that I can play out now, so if I have to tweak it again in a year, or replace it with another so be it.
That said, I thought I'd post a sample of my playing at the moment - three months in - so in two years time we can all remember what we were working with, and perhaps understand what impact my current lips may have had on the analysis. If Terry or Graeme have any ideas on what else to capture at this point in time to compare the current me with the future me I'll give it a go. As the saying goes, I'll not pass this way again, so whatever we want to capture we best capture now.
If you recall the first video was poking fun at myself getting a kick out of my unshaven countenance appearing on the monitor, and I don't think it is an acurate picture of who is testing the flute. It's been a while since I used the web cam and I'm not over it yet. So here's a better example of where I'm at at the moment, but still not quite relaxed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-7HpPZacJw
And the resulting plot:
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Cheers,
Carey
