rod
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
This baroque flute will soon go to Prague, to a lovely and very talented young woman who is has been playing in various venues around Europe. I made her a blackwood flute a few years ago and it has been played in St Peter's Rome, not a bad venue...
She will soon record compositions by a Czech composer of the 18th century, and this new flute in boxwood, hopefully, will have a sonority appropriate to his specific requirements.
Like an engraved fire arm, a flute must have a sonority and response that first satisfies the player, before we talk about the secondary luxury of perhaps delighting the eye, so my reputation would crumble overnight if word got around that it looks better than it plays. We shall see, as I am about to start working on tuning and voicing. Presently it is a fancy looking broom handle with a hole down the middle just about finished with what I call the 'corpus'. Next comes the task of giving it a 'spiritus'. We shall see...
Thought it might be of interest to see a few snapshots of work in progress, while it is still unfinished and with some workshop saw dust everywhere.
Rod
She will soon record compositions by a Czech composer of the 18th century, and this new flute in boxwood, hopefully, will have a sonority appropriate to his specific requirements.
Like an engraved fire arm, a flute must have a sonority and response that first satisfies the player, before we talk about the secondary luxury of perhaps delighting the eye, so my reputation would crumble overnight if word got around that it looks better than it plays. We shall see, as I am about to start working on tuning and voicing. Presently it is a fancy looking broom handle with a hole down the middle just about finished with what I call the 'corpus'. Next comes the task of giving it a 'spiritus'. We shall see...
Thought it might be of interest to see a few snapshots of work in progress, while it is still unfinished and with some workshop saw dust everywhere.
Rod