Klarinet Archive - Posting 000597.txt from 1999/11

From: "Dr. David McClune" <dmcclune@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] flute plugs
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:51:10 -0500

Most music stores sell plugs for flute. They are made out of cheap
plastic, rubber, expensife plastic, etc. The fancy ones look fancy but the
cheap plastic work fine. Different brands of flutes have different sized
opeen holes, so you might as well go to a store and check them out.

There is a growing segment of the flute world which is going back to closed
hole flutes for a variety of reasons. Go for it.

I am a doubler and used nice rubber plugs in my holes. I sometimes loan my
flute to a player in band when they forget their flute. Last Spring the
flute section decided to help me out and took out and threw away the plugs,
so I would be forced to become a "real" flutist! I now have cheap plastic
plugs and no longer loan out the flute!

At 02:58 PM 11/15/1999 EST, you wrote:
>I know that I'm asking the wrong list about this. Does anyone know of a
>place that sells plugs or stoppers for flute? Outside of me being a
clarinet
>and saxophone player, I also do a little flute. My difficulty comes with
low
>e and below. I don't think that it is my embouchure. My fingers don't
quite
>cover those holes. I have no problem slurring an octave down to them.
Sorry
>to post this on the licorice list.
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Mary W. Balch
>
Dr. David McClune
Professor of Woodwinds/Director of Bands
Union University, Jackson, TN 38305

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