flute review: byrne short 'f' flute

Irish Flute
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i just recently was playing some tunes with a fellow fluter. we decided to break out our short f flutes. mine is a beautiful boosey rs pratten perfected, quite a player, cocus wood 8 keyed. my friends was a bryne f flute, blackwood keyless.

review of the byrne f flute:
the byrne short ‘f’ flute was easily on par with the boosey, if not better in some ways. if i didn’t already own a ‘f’ flute, i would get one made by byrne w/out hesitation. beautiful, elegant, sleek instrument. plenty volume, gorgeous tone. i kept reaching for it, over my boosey. easy on the ears, easy on the fingers, and easy to blow.

f flutes are a blast, for those who haven’t played one. fun to travel with, easy to pack etc. and sound great outdoors. thought i would submit my review in case anyone might have an interest.

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Hey rama - I wanded to tell you, you’re a cool guy, before one of us gets the axe as well and is send to AndrewK land,

actualy there are a lot of cool people here, can’t we speak our mind and stay !


ahh yes, and Cat, I love you :smiley:

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How much are these flutes, any idea?
Yeah, Byrne’s rock.

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no idea what byrne charges. as you know jim, a phone call to bryan gets you the straight scoop on all that type of info. i can only imagine what your byrne ‘d’ flute must be like after playing this shortie. damn nice flute!

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Yes, I took the flute to a good freind’s party last night,
the devil made me imbibe a little catnip,
and it all came together–the flute, the technique,
the bottom octave. A couple of hours of wonderful
flute.

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that’s grand jim, you must of been in heaven. so you introduced yourself to that elusive bottom ‘d’, did you? or is it the other way around, it introduced itself to you?

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Me to it. Almost there…a few more weeks.
Now I have to sell the car to buy one of
these with keys.

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I have an F flute it would be a lot better if the upper octave was in tune it has no cork.

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Oh, put a cork in it, wouldja?

Just kidding.

Actually, not. Why haven’t you intalled a stopper in it yet? Just wondering.

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i made the assumption it was bamboo or some other fixed end flutey thingy wingy

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drill it, plug it…

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I must confess I did not think of that.

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denny’s got a good idea, i neverthought of that, so that’s my confession.

i’m afraid we’re both doomed to flute purgatory

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That’s a relief. At least you can get out of there after a time. Flute Hell would be…what? Only Pakistani D sticks for the damned, and the devils are all playing Eb sessions?

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You made a correct assumption. I can’t be bothered with drill and stuff if some body else wants to they can contact me via PM.

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It just slipped out…


:confused:

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Ralph Sweet said that he was redesigning his F folk flute. He has some other things on the table right now and said that it would be a few months before it would be ready!

Nate

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Cracked Pakistani D sticks and no superglue, Teflon tape or beeswax.

Just played/heard a lovely prototype F flute, but I don’t know if I should say by whom yet. But it was grand; similar experience to rama’s only this one compared favorably over a Hawkes Excelsior Sonorous (or however it’s spelled).