Hi All, Recently I aquired a Firth Hall and Pond baroque flute. It has been reconditioned/repaired. There are two repaired cracks, one in the head joint at the...
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Paolo Faeti
pavolo59
Feb 2, 2011 4:23 pm
While repairing cracks in wooden recorders, the glues one possibly uses more often are  super-glue (Cyanoacrilate) and dual-component epoxy glue. The...
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FRANS AND KATE VAN LI...
frans_vl...
Feb 2, 2011 5:39 pm
To add: Super glue (cyano acrylate) comes in several thicknesses, from gel to very liquid. The latter makes it easy to get into very thin cracks, and the ...
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Ron
tw45ph
Feb 2, 2011 9:17 pm
... So does epoxy, come in several varieties! The sort you get in your local DIY store is loaded up with fillers to thicken it and reduce the price. If you...
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hawk henries
odinjara
Feb 3, 2011 1:36 am
Thanks for the replies. As a maker of wooden flutes myself the process' describe to fix a crack are exactly what I do. What type of glues were used say in 1720...
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Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu
Feb 3, 2011 7:09 am
Hi all I am looking for informations on lefty flutists We know from Marpurg (1746) that Blavet was playing "Ã gauche". Are they other records of 18th or 19th...
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Colin Hamilton
cuilaodha
Feb 3, 2011 11:51 am
Hi Philippe, I've seen a few over the years, including two left handed "Nicholson Improved" played by two of the Hynes bros from Co. Clare. ( all three of them...
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Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu
Feb 3, 2011 2:47 pm
Hi Colin Thanks for this information and the photo. The question of embouchure undercutting is very difficult: I have more or less answered to the question...
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Ron
tw45ph
Feb 3, 2011 3:08 pm
... You've got me thinking here. Something that comes to mind is the existence of "early" recorders with two holes at the narrow end so either one could be...
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Jem Hammond
jemtheflute
Feb 3, 2011 3:09 pm
Philippe, I don't know about written evidence of fluters of old who were lefties (I'm reading Ardal Powell's book at the moment and there's stuff in that on ...
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Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu
Feb 3, 2011 4:22 pm
Thanks Jem for those two flutes. Waouh the Astor seems to be a fabulous flute! Lucky bidder! Yes I have a good collection of Renaissance iconography showing...
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Colin Hamilton
cuilaodha
Feb 3, 2011 4:26 pm
Hi Philippe, ... I just checked the book and I've made 39 lefty flutes since '79. Most of those would be keyed. Up until I changed my embouchure design, a...
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Philippe Allain-Dupr€...
allaindu
Feb 3, 2011 5:04 pm
Waouh! I have been making Renaissance and baroque flutes since 1982 and never had such an order! even for the embouchure undercutting. It's true that Catherine...
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jemtheflute
Feb 3, 2011 6:27 pm
That doesn't surprise me, Philippe - you have to look at where your customers are coming from. The vast majority of players who investigate using period...
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Colin Hamilton
cuilaodha
Feb 3, 2011 7:33 pm
... What's interesting from this perspective is that many traditional left handed players are right handed all other aspects of their lives, and even some...
I've mentioned the experiment I did into the effects of thread wrapping on a test tenon. Since then, Prof. Neville Fletcher has come back to me with clarified...
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Rachel Brown
rachelbrownf...
Feb 3, 2011 10:49 pm
Hi Philippe, The very first time I went to Ireland I was really keen to hear some traditional Irish music, so our host took us to a pub where there were four...
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Paolo Faeti
pavolo59
Feb 3, 2011 11:21 pm
I can only praise the author's thoroughness and concern, yet results seem to clash with common experiences with thread-lapped recorders. I for one am the...
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Terry McGee
mcgeeflutes
Feb 4, 2011 2:07 am
... It would be comforting to believe that, Paola, but it seems unlikely that I have been picked out by fate to have the only two cases ever of serious ...
Hi Rachel I am a convinced Irish flute fan myself, so I know! My question was: Are they other records than Blavet of 18th or 19th century left-handed flutists?...
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Robert Bigio
robertbigio
Feb 4, 2011 8:52 am
... Trevor Wye has told the story. Many decades ago he and William Bennett produced a recording of nineteenth-century pieces for two flutes and piano,...
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Robert Bigio
robertbigio
Feb 4, 2011 9:11 am
... There is a picture of a left-handed Rudall, Rose & Carte eight-keyed flute from Patsy Moloney's collection in my book on this firm, which is on the presses...
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Terry McGee
mcgeeflutes
Feb 4, 2011 10:08 am
... Forgiven, just this once (heh heh). And how do we get copies, Robert? Terry -- Terry McGee - flutes, flute research, restorations and repairs 35 Bunderra...
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maihcol
Feb 4, 2011 10:55 am
... If the maker turns the tenons to take a thin thread, then the lapping trough for the thread can be relatively shallow. This then leaves a tenon which is...
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Terry McGee
mcgeeflutes
Feb 4, 2011 11:11 am
... Sounds reasonable, Garry, but I wonder what the minimum depth of thread is. It was interesting to see how far a piece of boxwood was prepared to go...
Dear group: I´ve seen only the attached image of Blavet playing like the majority of us. Is there any picture showing M.Blavet playing in other manner?...
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Robert Bigio
robertbigio
Feb 4, 2011 4:08 pm
... The publisher, Tony Bingham, will have them on his website, and I will be able to supply them myself. I expect they will be available through the usual...
