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, ...
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Dennis
dennisms78
Oct 6, 2009 2:12 am
Rod, Thank you for your additional comment. The workshop was a BLAST! Mindy teaches with so much positive energy, but also with hmmm, shall I say, a quirky...
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Francis Dozin
francisdozin
Oct 6, 2009 7:29 am
Hello, I may be interrested in your flute. What would be the price, and he cost for shipping to Belgium, please ? Francis ... -- ...
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tw45ph
Oct 6, 2009 9:51 am
... Forbidden by Yahoo! Were every one us with an instrument to sell to do so here the so called discussions would be all but that. I've got hundreds to flog...
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Sid Glickman
allinsts
Oct 6, 2009 9:15 pm
WHich one? Sid ... Hello, I may be interrested in your flute. What would be the price, and he cost for shipping to Belgium, please ? Francis Daniel Pyle a...
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Sarah Meyer
sarah.anne.meyer@...
Oct 7, 2009 12:47 pm
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...
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rod cameron
rcameron@...
Oct 7, 2009 3:37 pm
Sarah, I am in the tall prairie grasses of Kansas, taking part in some intensive engraving of silver and steel, with some master engravers from Austria and...
Hi, Rod! Glad to hear from you! - I´ve also sent a couple of e-mails to you recently (about an extra middle joint for my Grenser etc), and since you always...
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Terry McGee
mcgeeflutes
Oct 7, 2009 9:40 pm
Uhhh, that was scary for a flute maker. Coming down to breakfast, rubbing the sleep out of the eyes to find the email program triumphantly announcing emails...
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tw45ph
Oct 8, 2009 7:42 am
... In my opinion it is remarkably immodest for a woman to discuss her crack in public, but I am old fashioned like that. RH....
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bethowen@...
flute14k
Oct 8, 2009 7:01 pm
Such an email could result in the sender's becoming the BUTT of a joke! SOUTHPORT STUDIOS Capital University Beth Owen, NCTM 1218 Southport Dr. Columbus,...
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Sarah Meyer
sarah.anne.meyer@...
Oct 10, 2009 4:30 am
Is this where I make a joke about playing a wind instrument? ________________________________ From: earlyflute@yahoogroups.com...
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bethowen@...
flute14k
Oct 10, 2009 7:02 pm
All in good fun, Sarah! I hope you get the crack in your instrument taken care of soon. It's a horrible sick feeling to look down at your flute and ...
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chris_deis
Oct 11, 2009 5:09 pm
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...
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Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Oct 11, 2009 11:45 pm
Greetings Chris, Corian makes an excellent ivory substitute; I've been using it for years, either "Bone" or "Almond" approximate the color of new ivory. It...
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chris_deis
Oct 12, 2009 3:27 am
Thanks Mary - that's good to know. The tenon is quite thin so I think I will plan on Corian and a 1-layer thread winding too. I'm thinking the thread will...
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Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Oct 12, 2009 4:04 am
I don't really know to what extent the thread would allow the tenon to expand; it depends what kind of thread and what kind of glue... I guess I prefer to...
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bedford_vanadium
bedford_vana...
Oct 13, 2009 7:42 pm
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...
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Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Oct 13, 2009 8:04 pm
If the boxwood is freshly cut (not checked), you have the option of boring through the heart but you get a brighter sound that way, and it's tricky because of...
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Kenneth
kkshaw43
Oct 14, 2009 2:57 am
Interesting story on the CBC News, http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/10/12/flute-frederick-prussia.html Ken Shaw...
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bethowen@...
flute14k
Oct 14, 2009 3:40 am
Is that you, Ken? Noticed you weren't at BPI this year; that must have put a stop to some kind of record. Was that an authentic flute owned by F the G?...
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Kenneth
kkshaw43
Oct 14, 2009 12:45 pm
Beth - It's me. Mary was in China communing with pandas, and I'm between jobs, so we didn't come to BPI this year. My first year was 1973, but have been...
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Paul
pjbjr
Oct 14, 2009 5:13 pm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIzmesTzgBps Here's another story with a photograph. ""We have had it examined by an expert in historic...
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john sayre
bitschon
Oct 14, 2009 8:50 pm
Perhaps it is just hidden....but where is the d# key? Isn't that Quantz's big contribution to the history of the Western World? ... From: Paul...
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Babbo Orsone
orsopadre
Oct 14, 2009 9:12 pm
I can see what appears to be a single key at the lower end of the middle joint but Quantz's flute had a double key, one for D# and one for Eb. ... From: john...
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Alex Mauron
xenophanes666ch
Oct 14, 2009 10:16 pm
Scherer also built one-keyed flutes for Frederick II, and I seem to remember that Quantz may have built a one-key flute for the king as well. In addition, a...
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Chris Deis
chris_deis
Oct 15, 2009 1:10 pm
I'm just speculating - seems to my little mind that the thread would not be as rigid as the Corian & would "go with the flow" so to speak and act as a buffer...
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Paul
pjbjr
Oct 15, 2009 9:31 pm
Hi All! "Frederick the Great: deine Traversflöte klingt klasse,vielen Dank daß ich darauf spielen durfte. Nur ist sie leider zur Zeit ziemlich...
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Mitchell Gass
mitchellgass
Oct 15, 2009 10:33 pm
... Yes, at http://www.ndr.de/radio/ndr212.html I'm guessing this will be on the Kultur channel http://www.ndrkultur.de/ ...
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Steve Goldman
sjgoldman06
Oct 15, 2009 10:42 pm
There are several NDR sites. You can see them all at http://www.ndr.de/radio/index.html . I would guess that this broadcast would be found at...