Dear EarlyFlute Group, Some of you may be interested in this and other "Les Arts Florissants" concerts that are presently available for a limited period of...
Dear All, Â Thank you for your discussion. Your integrity gives me much confidence after a slightly shaky start to my membership! Here is a copy of the email...
This breton musician issues the best possible tribute to the 8 keyed wooden flute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=FR&hl=fr&v=YEKUZmwd-p8 H. Xmas j. "¿vendes...
Hello, Â Let me introduce myself. To those of you who don't know me, I'm a voice instructor, a flute and whistle-playing Scots Mummy of two (or three, if you...
Hello Folks, My name is Chris Deis and I hail from sunny Indianapolis IN. I found out about the early flute group from folks over at Chiff&Fipple, where I am...
Hello! I can't find my parts of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Sonata Wq. 85 in G. I only found the flute part. Has anyone also the obligato cembalo part? Many...
Hello to everyone Just a question for the semiquavers in the first bar. Why they are not doted at the first two beats and doted at the last two? Also in bars 2...
Here is a link to the best picture of an old wood and iron traversing-mandrel headstock I have come across. The page also shows Plumier's threaded mandrel...
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G'day, EFcom, Some of you will know that I'm a wood-be traverso player of some 4 years' standing. I keep a small rotating collection of 19th-century ...
I am selling a 'new old stock' von Huene 415 Denner in blackwood and an Adrian Brown's transitional in a figured (curly) maple at 440. Please contact me...
Hello, all, The seller of a pretty illegibly stamped flute (see "Temp" album) suggests it is an 18th-century instrument, but the style of the smoothly profiled...
Hi group, I've been chatting to a friend about which is the best way to cut timber from a log. Bearing in mind this is boxwood and doesn't come in massive...
Hi Rod, I'm not sure how to get a message to you, but you seem to be pretty active here. Did you get my email about my crack?! It's my favorite and best flute...
Dear Early-Fluters, On behalf of a friend, I am letting you know that there is a flute by Hans Coolsma, a 1973 copy of Thomas Stanesby jr, (c. 1730), a=415, ...
Hello everyone, I've been lurking for quite a few months, and have learned quite a lot. I personally would LOVE to see a place where masterclasses, workshops,...
¿Could anybody tell me which is the aproximately position of the cork (the distance between the cork and the center of the embouchure hole) in a Hotteterre...
Hi Everyone, I always seem to have oiling questions! Here's my latest: On my Hotteterre flute, on which the end of the head joint doesn't come out, is it okay...
Hello all Bart will again be giving a masterclass, as well as lecturing and teaching at the Early Music Institute at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music....
I have been having some fun making my own embouchures recently -- several old buggered flutes I have epoxied the embouchure closed and made a new one. In this...
Dear Fellow Group Members, I wanted some suggestions and/or advice for those of you players who play a lot of early 19th century repertoire (pre 1820). Do you...
Traverso, the international newsletter of historical flutes and flute-playing, celebrates its twentieth anniversary by reprinting the entire run of back issues...
Hello All... If I remember a-rightly awhile back there was a link to an online edition of James Oswald's music...did I dream this? Anybody know where/what that...
We know Siccama as the chap who invented, patented and marketed his 10-key Diatonic flute in the mid 19th century. But he actually patented 3 other designs,...
Posted by: "rod cameron" rcameron@... Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:35 am (PDT) ... I had the pleasure of meeting David Freeman (very briefly) at the summer school...
Dear Colleagues, It is with a sad heart that I write to tell you, I have received word from Michaela, that her husband, David Freeman, passed away today, after...