Just noticed this lovely looking flute. Not most of our cup of tea but gorgeous work.
Just the thing for my hand pain, tiny holes.
I love the way dark rings look on boxwood. The Noy flute posted the other day had them, too. I just love the aesthetics of it.
Thank heavens it doesn’t play at 440 (apparently), so that I want it less.
I was gonna say something similar to Jim – It’s a lovely flute, I’m sure a good player, but it seems a very aggressive price for an A430 flute with no slide. That’s an extreme niche market.
I just received yesterday a new recording of some Quantz concerti by Mary Oskiewitz (I’d never heard of her till someone posted a link to her performance on youtube on the earlyflute list). I was marveling at some of the low notes, thinking it must be at A392. It’s a Quantz flute at A385 made by JF Beaudin. The combination of the large Quantz bore, the low pitch, and the player and maker leads to a wonderful sound. I was wondering where she got an orchestra to play at 385 (Hungary), but there’s no harpsichord on the recording, so no need to tune a hundred some-odd strings a few coins down from 440/415/392.
I hope that is the camera, and not the actual color of the boxwood. It should be a bit more honey colored, not green unless its dyed or acid stained.
I don’t acid stain my own boxwood flutes - preferring them to age gracefully. And I’ve never mastered the techniques of that as well as staining them with dyes. An Ozone box would increase the rate that they oxidize on the surface but I lack the amps and a dog-free location outside to do this. In the summer I will leave them in the sun to tan a little sometimes.
But green? Its kind of blech-ish to my eyes.
Casey
Chas is the flute on the recording you mention a Beaduin flute with two keys a la Quantz.
I know Beauduin makes flutes like that. Cylindrical body, tapered head, the modern traverso with two keys.
Nothing wrong with a 430 flute if your playing solo or authentic period music.
probably not the best flute for ITM players, still.
As for Casey’s comments looks like normal aged boxwood must be something wrong with your computer screen.
if only my own Burns boxwood low flutes had the same fine quality of workmanship as Folkers and Powell.
The recording says that it’s a Quantz replica made by Beaudin. I couldn’t find any in Jean-Francois’s list of drawings that went down to A385, but there is one with seven joints between 392 and 415. Here’s a link to the A-minor concerto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izSSPO1wjPc . Oops! there IS a harpsichord. I’d thought there wasn’t one, that it may have been replaced with an archlute or theorbo, but I was wrong.
Of course there’s nothing wrong with A430 (or A385). It’s just a whole lot more complicated than 415 or 392, either of which you can get by transposing (or shifting the harpsichord keyboard).
Just curious chas,
I have been reading up on Beaudin’s modern traverso. I’d love to try one myself.
I noticed he makes a two keyed foot joint. Something I only associate with Quantz.