I have a feeling that it would be impossible for me to play that cute little F piccolo. I wonder what the glove size of the player was.
I wonder what the glove size of the player was.
Know just what you mean. I’ve got rather large hands (XL gloves and all that) and find it somewhat painful to maintain a secure enough grip to play one of Jon’s piccolos much less that toy.
I have a block mounted E piccolo ID and have small but very fat fingers. Only the g sharp block {d terms} gets in my way for proper A rolls. Playing without rolls or simply is no problem. It is only a problem if one wants to play tunes with proper ornamentation that it becomes any type of problem. Anyway we should be in the piccolo thread anyway but shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
But then again if there were more interesting flutes in the style requested here we’d have found them. I’m sure.
Here is an F thats Carl Fischer {German} at least its eight key rather than the usual german flute in F six key no name
http://www.larkcamp.com/giffiles/WareMay04/ami161_1.jpg
I think long meandering threads are a more interesting read than narrow focus threads that soon get lost due to the rarity of the subject
Where are the rest and what was played on them? Were they just elaborate band flutes for the eccentric or was there music written that asked for this type of instrument or was it like today the request of someone wanting a flute ‘capo’?
Since most of us is “off topic”… This is likely to be high pitch, right? http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180671971110&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
The F flutes do seem a bit less common in general. I checked the Dayton C miller collection and found that there were Bb (Ab concert?) F seemed to be lacking. I was expecting to find at least a Hawkes and Son Crown AZ in F but no such luck. Even the makers of modern keyed F flutes don’t have it as an option from what I can see, but I haven’t been looking too hard.
So if a group of players gather at a pub to play F flutes, is it a fession?
no more so than an Eb one called an Ebession…or Eflession
A session with only F flutes would be a flustercluck.
Effluents.
R
I have no F flute, so I am ineffable.
The only feasible, finkable response to that is, ‘F off!’ 
I’m doubly F’ed
here is little Effie’s head
- by e. e. cummings 1894–1962
here is little Effie’s head
whose brains are made of gingerbread
when the judgment day comes
God will find six crumbs
stooping by the coffinlid
waiting for something to rise
as the other somethings did—
you imagine His surprise
bellowing through the general noise
Where is Effie who was dead?
—to God in a tiny voice,
i am may the first crumb said
whereupon its fellow five
crumbs chuckled as if they were alive
and number two took up the song,
might i’m called and did no wrong
cried the third crumb, i am should
and this is my little sister could
with our big brother who is would
don’t punish us for we were good;
and the last crumb with some shame
whispered unto God, my name
is must and with the others i’ve
been Effie who isn’t alive
just imagine it I say
God amid a monstrous din
watch your step and follow me
stooping by Effie’s little, in
(want a match or can you see?)
which the six subjunctive crumbs
twitch like mutilated thumbs:
picture His peering biggest whey
coloured face on which a frown
puzzles, but I know the way—
(nervously Whose eyes approve
the blessed while His ears are crammed
with the strenuous music of
the innumerable capering damned)
—staring wildly up and down
the here we are now judgment day
cross the threshold have no dread
lift the sheet back in this way.
here is little Effie’s head
whose brains are made of gingerbread
I think Nonoheedrone is taking the proverbial pee! What’s the poem got to do with the meaning of life the universe and/or everything?
H
The Rub; Daniel’s Mazurka & Russ O’Conway’s Saddle Sore, circa 1988
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e. e. cummings
in an f-ing thread? Notwithstanding the poem’s title, surely wildly off-topic!
Not sure Jem, not sure…
H
The Rub; Daniel’s Mazurka & Russ O’Conway’s Saddle Sore, circa 1988
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Save your hot air for blowing down your flute
Eeeee, bah gum!
Sigh.
Well, it certainly isn’t a case of Nano’s short cummings.
Sigh all you want, at least it’s brief.
H
The Rub; Daniel’s Mazurka & Russ O’Conway’s Saddle Sore, circa 1988
http://www.box.net/shared/3ext4vp05u Save your hot air for blowing down your flute