Hi Has anybody tried joining all the off cuts to make a rainbow flute ? It maybe a bit rough in the inner bore, but the outer could be uniform. Steve Ed Foley...
or you can flatten the drone side without elongating it by putting something in the bore at the foot, such as a small ring of wood or epoxy to "choke" or...
How about this, anyone who sees a problem with this process please chime in. 1. Make sure the bird you are using to tune is the same one you will keep on the...
Hi Chuck its willie from down under can you add me to the next flute exchange thanks Chuck you already have my pre ferd email address. Willie Kingi ... ...
Ed, Have you considered carving or attaching something like an eagle head on the end of the flute? I'm thinking that inlay bands alone on that much wood just...
Ed, Some like the aesthetics of a long flute with a high voice. A lot of old flutes used direction holes, or side slits, or a single tuning hole to accomplish...
Hi, If I have a fundamental of F# and I drill my first hole at the foot, What should that hole be tuned to? Do I go up one note for every hole? Chuck ...
Chuck, A traditional six-hole flute with an F# fundamental would be tuned as follows: Note A Hole 1 (from foot) B Hole 2 (from foot) C# Hole 3 (from...
Right now, as I write this, I am carrying on a conversation with Jim Balcarras in Scotland via MSN. We came a conclusion so important that I had to post right...
Just an idea,I had,.If you have any flute that won't work,Don't use it as firewood . Turn it into Wind Chimes ,and get some music in your garden. They are more...
A little while back I posted a couple Spreadsheets to assist with flute tuning and fingerhole placement. One was James Gilliland's finger hole placement chart...
At Echoes this year there was a vendor who I wanted to purchase from but wasnt able to before I left. I am hoping someone here may have picked up a business...
Anna, Yes, constricting the bore at the foot will cause increased impedence which will make the end correction longer than the usual k1. The wave resonating...
Well, I Feel like a well seasoned Newbie then. LOL. I have more sawdust, shavings and exapmles of what I shouldn't do then Examples of what was done right....
I looked at it but haven't really made anything from it yet. I figured out that I need to study on this a bit more before I start making sawdust. AG...
... that ... out ... Contact either Doug(fishhawk)Reed who has hosted that event for years, or you can go to the Echoes site and contact the committee and they...
Well Guys and Gals, I guess I am back at least for a while. For those who have joined in the last couple of years, please forgive the rantings of an old man...
I am new to the craft, so I'm still having problems accepting "rejects" as acceptable practice. I have few problems with the actual woodworking side of...
I am new to the craft, so I'm still having problems accepting "rejects" as acceptable practice. I have few problems with the actual woodworking side of...
Jack, That's the same place I am at. The woodworking aspect isn't foreign to me. The sound is. The last flute I made lost the high note. Almost nothing but...
I suppose it will be my fate to have to cut the excess wood when tuning my flutes. Something inside me still rankles every time I shorten a flute by cutting....
i have struggled with this also. i have no solution except that if your flute is still long enough to cut to the A you desired you have not lost anything....
Tony and Jack...if you think the flute is going to be a reject, then just plug the top hole (closet to the TSH) and drill another hole at the foot and see if...
You can always fill the tuning hole back in (maybe with stone or wood inlay and redrill it Ed. Just put tape inside the bore at the holes and fill away! You...
... KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING! (sigh....) ... Don't believe that! that is how you learn what exactly you are doing... As for the weak tuning hole, I...
Ed, If you knew exactly what you were doing it would not be called experimenting. Sorry couldn't resist that one. Don't give up and always try to learn from...
