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howdy folks!
just wondering, is there any way to adjust the volume on a flute before
I glue it up? Also, just how loud are these beauties supposed to be?
I know I get lots of volume when I'm playing a CD, but are they a
relatively quiet instrument? I guess I'm used to the volume of say, a
concert side blown metal flute. I clamped up my first flute here, just
to see what happened and I get a real nice tone, but very little volume
to my thinking. I carved this one by hand, just to say I did, but the
spec's are all from Ki-e-ta's manual and so I think I got everything
where it should be. The only possible "issue" might be that the north
end of the bore and south end of the SAC aren't rounded like they would
be with a router, but are more angular/ramped. I do have all the edges
smoothed over though.
Any thought?
Namaste,
Kev






Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:13 pm

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howdy folks! just wondering, is there any way to adjust the volume on a flute before I glue it up? Also, just how loud are these beauties supposed to be? I...
created2heal
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Mar 31, 2006
8:14 pm

Hey Kev. What size is your bore? There are two ways thai I know of that will increase your volume one is to have a thin wall on your bore the other is to widen...
Bob Egner
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Mar 31, 2006
11:07 pm

Hey Bob, I started with a 3/4 bore and so the flue is 3/8. After bore sanding, it's running closer to 7/8. But I got tone on this gem before bore sanding. I...
Kevin Christensen
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Apr 1, 2006
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Hi Kevin, I agree with what everyone has told you but don¹t try tuning until you get the flute glued and shaped. That can change a lot including how loud it...
Larry Evans
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Apr 1, 2006
1:13 pm

Hi Kevin, I agree with what everyone has told you but don¹t try tuning until you get the flute glued and shaped. That can change a lot including how loud it...
Larry Evans
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Apr 1, 2006
1:46 pm

I had the same problem with one of my early attempts. I found that widening the TSH slightly also raises the volume. This, however, is a double-edged sword...
Redbird
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Apr 2, 2006
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... Re: [basic_naf_making] Re: flute volume On 4/1/06 8:44 PM, "Redbird" <totsuwa@...> wrote: I had the same problem with one of my early attempts. I...
Larry Evans
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Apr 2, 2006
8:39 pm

Hi Kev, I haven't learned how to play a cd yet which side do you blow into? ha :-) On flute volume, I had a hard time at first getting the volume up to where...
dale thomas
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Apr 1, 2006
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Hey Dale, I'll tell you which side of the CD to blow into as soon as I figure out which end of the fish I have to light when I want to smoke one! LOL ;-) I...
Kevin Christensen
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Apr 1, 2006
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Hi Kevin, Good one on smoking the fish. ha It sounds like you're well on the way to having it just about right. On making the sides at 90 degrees, the more...
dale thomas
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Apr 3, 2006
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Hi again Kevin, Congratulations on solving your problem with the low volume. I got behind on reading the posts and read them in the wrong order, so I didn't...
dale thomas
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Apr 3, 2006
7:10 am

Hey Kev, The width of the TSH and depth of flue do the trick most of the time. My flutes are loud. What is loud to me? When I can play them in a small room and...
Chris
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