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Now I’ve got a new question as following: a friend of mine gave me recently a wooden Irish flute in D - simple system (it’s my second one now). But he said to me: I had to repair it, end ring at the ‘foot’ was broken. So he made that repair very properly with a piece of brass (some plumbing part I think). Has this new end shape some effect on the acoustic of the instrument? Is it bad for sound quality or not?
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Actually, the ring is after the two venting holes… It will have little (if any) effect on the sound. On a flute with this two holes, even closing completely the end has almost no effect on the first two octaves. If there were low C & C# keys, I’d say the low C could be affected
I really don’t know. It’s a D simple system tunable made in cocus wood so far I can see. Sound is pretty good on second octave. Third octave is easy to take but low one mist depth (it depends more on me I think!).
A lot of woods are marketed as “cocus” these days… Especially for indian or pakistani made flutes.
The “real” cocus used for flutes during the 19th century is a very rare wood coming from the West Indies: Brya ebenus. It’s dark reddish brown. According to the pictures, I don’t think this flute is made of cocus.
My knowledge about woods is too limited. Sorry. I can well see some large brown veins here and there on the ‘body’. The ‘head’ is darker. I must say my picture is well a little bit overlighted. Anyway I can’t really determine if it’s true Brya or not.
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By the way, the sound is not effected by the shape and size of your brass end ring. Did you say you get some good notes in the 3re octave? Which notes? The wood looks like maple, it could be boxwood, maybe.
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Thanks too for your comment. Now I know this repair has no effect on the sound at all. About the third octave I can ‘take’ the five first notes without effort (in a strange way). It’s relative easy with this flute and not with another one. It’s just a question of angle of attack with your breath and changing position of your lips (hard to explain). Now I have to break down this…
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