... to warp, shrink and ovalise. ... and poorer! ... Please allow to put a word in for the unfortunate box tree. The notorious tendency depends on the actual...
Dear Sir Ron Harvey My English is too poor to understand exactly what you mean. Mersenne gives the measurements of "one of the best flutes in the world which...
I agree with Philippe, about bent renaissance flute continuing to play well, but not so with baroque flutes. I also agree that the narrow A and B octaves are...
rod cameron
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Feb 2, 2009 6:45 pm
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Rod, I'd love to hear more about your heat treatment technique, or maybe I can find it in the archives; it must date from before I joined this list (?) In...
Mary Kirkpatrick
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Feb 2, 2009 8:28 pm
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Hello, Mary! Certainly, there are many qualities of boxwood as each tree is different. Large boxwood trees often produce somewhat mushy wood, but not always....
rod cameron
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Feb 2, 2009 9:06 pm
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:07:44 +1100, Philippe Allain-Dupré ... Indeed, can anyone recommend a good supplier for boxwood? My usual supplier has given up...
Greetings! For any readers on this side of the pond and any who might be visiting London in the Spring, an invitation to 3 workshops for modern and baroque...
... world which was curved" see ... which gives a nice color and a nice polish as well as a good sound, in order to "la beauté accompagne la bonté de...
Hello Boxwood has always been used in northern Spain for pipe making as it is quite a common tree in the north of the country. These are 5 of the distributors...
... properly ... Turkish ... Did you see the online photos of the stuff in Turkey, their stacks of logs in the wood yard? Those who doubt what I wrote about...
... Second spasm: As I mentioned before, I have seen for myself a boxwood ruler, probably Victorian, a full meter long and perfectly straight, with an eye...
Rod, thanks for all that about your treatment methods! Maybe I had read them before and not got up the courage to try them -- but I will, with a few "lively"...
Mary Kirkpatrick
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Feb 3, 2009 1:14 pm
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Haha Ron France and Spain are big, but worth the trip! particularly Pyrénées and Alpes for you. There are also plenty of 200 years boxwood trees in Parc des...
... My experience? I responded to this from Philippe Allain-Dupré ... nor is the opinion so peculiar. I have seen the same expressed many times over on forums...
... the ten years of seasoning that would have been afforded in times gone by... Who today looks as far ahead as that? I'm embarrassed to say, it is achieved...
Mary Kirkpatrick
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Feb 3, 2009 6:24 pm
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... Well, I am currently using wood I rough-turned and bored in 1990, and I have rather a lot of boxwood I bought when I was but a strip of a lad in the late...
... Me too, strangely enough. Near where we lived in the 1970s they used to demolish large buildings with stairways and wall panels of all sorts of exotic...
... lad in ... Do you try the "new" stuff? It is worrying that nobody seems to be confident enough to recommend any particular source while the hobby market...
'earlyflute' maintains a high standard in gracious interchange of hints, tips, discussions, and experience, so when Ron writes: "....The fact remains that a...
rod cameron
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Feb 3, 2009 8:52 pm
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Hi Earlyflutists, I have just spent the whole day cutting boxwood and preparing billets from logs I bought a few years ago -so it's funny to come back to...
... it is ... There's an increasing neglect of this since the invention of the chainsaw and the "time is money" ethos but the time of year is also important,...
Hello All, I thought that I would ask the collected wisdom of all on this list a quick question. Does anyone know if there is a facsimile edition of...
Hi John, Do you know OMI in New York City? They have lots of facsimiles, including the Telemann. It's a great a store. http://www.omifacsimiles.com/ good luck,...
Thanks Immanuel, I went to their webpage earlier this week and looked through everything and I could not find the Tafelmusik. Maybe a second look would do it!...
Hi John, I messed up. Somehow I thought I saw it there and wrote too quickly. I don't see it in there catalogue after taking a 2nd peek. Sorry to get your...
Some time back, I located and published on my web site an account of a meeting held by the Society of Arts in Britain in 1859 to determine what could and...
... Hello, Not to leave anything negative where not needed, this is solved albeit six months late. Better late then never and I have the impression that there...
... Dear All, Let me contribute my own little piece of information. I have recently changed my tension release strategy for boxwood. Have the boxwood below 10%...
Simon, Very interesting; thank you! The idea of getting the wood so dry to begin with makes me nervous though. Have you tried starting with wood of, say, 30%...
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