does anyone know if the headpiece is the same for an Eb and D flute of the same model? In otherwords can you buy a Flute then that would have just one headpiece, but would have interchangeable bodies to make the Flute Eb or D depending on your needs at the time… I didn’t search this , it may have been answered on a previous thread… it this is the case it might be worth the extra cash to get this option 
Ben S
yes, it’s possible. i know olwell makes a flute like that. other makers probably can too.
Peter Noy does it, too. I have such a setup myself made by him. D body for playing with others, and the Eb for unaccompanied solo playing (no Eb sessions hereabouts. Pity, that).
Combo setups are of course more expensive, so I elected to have Peter order a custom-made French case for it, for - after all - at that point, in for a dime, in for a dollar. Might as well get a nice one as long as I can, was my reasoning.
I’ve a combination like that made by Hammy Hamilton. I don’t know if he does that regularly or not, but he happened to have an available Eb body that fit the concert headpiece. The result was somewhat in tune so I bought the body and am now the happy owner of a Hamilton corps-de-rechange or whatever it’s called.
I’ll be heading down to Massie’s Mill to pick up an Eflat body for my boxwood Olwell in seven weeks. Needless to say, I’m on pins and needles. I’m hoping the weather will be good enough to do some hiking in the Blue Ridge.
Usually the upper body is shorter on the Eb section, so you don’t have to shorten the head.
Yeah, in my case, just one head and footjoint. My Eb and D bodies are one-piece. So, four parts in all, one to be unused during playing.
I recall that I’ve come across examples of different-headed flutes, but I don’t know how likely one is to find them. They seem to be the exception. If the set of interchangeable bodies is a corps-de-réchange, then interchangeble heads must be a tête-de-réchange, right? 
How is the foot tuning? Is it flattened when played in D?
How is the foot tuning? Is it flattened when played in D?
Oddly enough, it seems relatively sharper with the D body! I’ll double check to be sure…
…yep. Weird. I’m thinking there are a host of reasons for this, and that not every such setup would have this characteristic.
I have a Meyer that plays in Eb. The slide is long enough that it pulls out to play in D. I sent it to Jon C to look at and he was the one who pointed this out. It does play stronger and easier in Eb, i.e. with the slide out about 1 cm. It plays in D with the slide out about an inch.
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