My Meyer, 8 key, blackwood, when pulled out about 1 cm, playes A 450! I have to pull it out about an inch to get A 440 and there it is in tunee with itself. It could never get to A 430. Does this seem strange? Someone give me a clue as to why so low a flute.
Nelson
Tot Deutschlanderen made lots of firewood flutes, I’ve a no name piccolo that simply doesn’t work at all. Never threw any more money at anything anonymous.
It helps to actually have some broad familiarity with a subject before passing blanket judgment on it. George Cloos was a German maker in New York city, Ah! German flutes, must be rubbish. Well then, why is Rod Cameron using his designs for 8 key flutes, hmmm?
Lots of old time Irish are pictured with pin mount flutes, most likely German stuff. Matt Molloy’s first flute his grand da or da picked up in New York from Wurlitzer’s. “Sweet.” Only reason he switched to the Rudall was for ceili band volume etc.
Hi Nelson,
It is great your Meyer is playing its best at 440 Hz.
My understanding is that various pitchs were used in the past, depending on the local fashion. Some were lower and some were higher than the today standard of 440 Hz. My Kohlert is stamped LP for “Low Pitch” It is playing at 430 hz with the tuning slide completely closed and 410 Hz with the tuning slide fully open.