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Author: BornAgainClarinetist
Date: 2006-04-16 09:21
I recently aquired a brannen flute with out a headjoint (thank god) at a very good price. Now my goal with this flute, with comparing it to other brannens similiarly equiped and now I am going to try out several headjoints to see what will work with the flute. In the flute world this seems perfectly logical.
If it were picking out clarinets, no one would ever just try one r13 and then "pick out a new mouthpiece that would work on it". It doesn't make sense that it works this way in the flute world. I mean, I know supply can be stiff, but i'm maybe a perspective buy of a powell 14k custom, considering the cost, I should have quite a few to choose from, not just that one and maybe a few other silvers that arent similiarly equipted. So far flute world any of the flute dealers have been able to provide the same kind of bulk that say weiner music does.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2006-04-17 11:47
Do flutes of the same brand, model and year differ a great deal from each other? Wooden clarinets and hard rubber mouthpieces definitely are individuals. I'm wondering whether flutes vary less simply because manufacturing from metal means fewer variables. (Uneasy feeling this is a stupid question--but I really don't know how much hand-work goes into making a metal flute, and this seems like the best place to ask....)
Lelia
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Author: DressedToKill
Date: 2006-04-17 17:08
An ENORMOUS amount of handwork goes into professional flutes. That's why they're so expensive...if you look at the Pearl flutes website, you'll see that an 18K gold Opera model starts at over $55,000...with NO options. There are huge amounts of variation between instruments that are handmade...one millimeter of difference in two handcut headjoints can produce two instruments that play so wildly different from one another it's hard to believe they're the same model.
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Author: martinbaxter
Date: 2006-04-19 21:57
Am I the only person left who prefers a wooden flute with metal head? A former pupil settled on a silver flute (murumatsu) with a wooden head and produces a sound which I like very much.
Martin
Phone 01229583504
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Author: DressedToKill
Date: 2006-04-19 22:11
Nope, you're not One of my flutes is a wood Sankyo, and I frequently use a gold or silver head on it...I, too, love the sound and the feel.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2006-04-21 03:04
James, with reputable brands, there is high consistency within models of flute, and models of head. (In my significant experience) You would have to be a very good player to notice any differences.
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