Dear Rod, This is of course an example of the usefulness of the half tone difference with 440. This was what it was actually done for as we all know. However,...
Just skimming the newly arrived Yale Musical Instrument Series publication, The Clarinet, Eric Hoeprich, and I find in note 102 on page 366: 102. For example,...
... Chris Krueger once told me that he once talked to an older friend of Freidrich von Huene who had played 8-or-so-key flute professionally in London in the...
Hello all. I would like to introduce myself as a new member of this forum, first, and let everyone know what a wonderful and diverse source of information and...
Interesting. I started an arrangement of the Violin Partita in Bm for solo flute. Dm was the key I decided on, because the veiled quality of the Bb and the G#...
Michael: I bought an Aulos Stanesby Jr. about five months ago from Witchita Band Instrument Company for $439 (nothwithstanding that the price in their...
... Edgar Hunt, best known as a recorder player, started out as a flute player. He studied with Albert Fransella. Edgar told me a similar story about his early...
Well said, Ardal! Thank you for all of your postings, and to all other contributers both experienced and novice. Many a question from a beginner has opened up...
rod cameron
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May 9, 2008 5:51 pm
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Hi Robert, It was nice to again about Edgar Hunt, one of my dearest contacts from the recent past. I enjoyed a long, enriching correspondence with him in the...
Hi Robert, It was nice to *hear* again about Edgar Hunt, one of my dearest contacts from the recent past. I enjoyed a long, enriching correspondence with him...
Michael, Marcelo may indeed be offering a fine flute for a good price. Is there any way you might have a chance to try one? If so, it would be nice to know...
rod cameron
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May 9, 2008 6:10 pm
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Rod, Yes, that was my thought. It has been said that you can't touch the quality of the Aulos in a wood instrument at that price, and Mr. Gurevich seems to...
... Try leaking hole #1, or open it half way. This can raise the e''' 10 or 15 cents with no loss of quality. This works on all one-key and simple system...
Michael, You can play a ton of music without touch the high e''', and Rick's advice is good. Many, many originals have a flat high e'''. On the Aulos Stanesby...
rod cameron
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May 9, 2008 8:23 pm
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Rod, Good to know, thank you for your insight. I've been struggling recently with a few passages in my arrangements of Bach violin sonatas with are often...
Yes, great stuff! Frank Theuns & Marc Hantaļ are the flute players for most of the symphonies. They play at 440, mind you, based on the prevailing pitch of...
Greetings from an oboe maker -- I can confirm that a pitch of somewhere between 405 and 410 is typical for early English oboes such as Bradbury and Stanesby,...
Mary Kirkpatrick
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May 10, 2008 11:44 am
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EarlyfluteHello Michael: I enjoy that you are adapting the Violin partita Bm to the flute. Baroque flute is similar to the baroque oboe, some notes are less...
... A bit further away from flutes, I'm afraid, but touching the same issue... I played in a council brass band in a country town in Victoria, Australia, as a...
... So that probably illustrates why the choice of pitch was still available well after international agreement for modern. Thanks for that Malcolm. Still...
... I think I am right in saying that brass bands in Britain continued to play at high pitch until the 1960s. ... I have a Rudall Carte price list on which the...
... What do you think Robert? Does it seem likely to have a reference to A439 significantly before 1995? ... Oh dear, a dubious honour! ... I suspect it goes...
Hello Robert, Brass bands in Britain were playing at high pitch until the 1960's? That amazes me. Why would they do that? You would need to have instruments...
Mark Norman
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May 11, 2008 5:42 pm
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... I can't answer the question in your third sentence other than to say that strange as it may seem, they did. I knew an old boy who had worked in the...
... English brass bands tend to own their own matched sets of instruments, and lend them out to the players. So each band can have its own pitch (hmmm - a bit...
Hello list, Question for the flutemakers: my understanding was that with a new instrument, sending it back at some point during the first year or so for...
lars
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May 13, 2008 3:50 pm
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It is my understanding that the flute, not the maker, is the authority on this one. Depending on the wood, how well it was seasoned, how it was played in, the...
Michael, As some one who plays on a number of antiquities in a "as they aged state" I would like to respond. Concerning both flutes and shakuhachi I find my...
