Hi folks,
New to the site and new to simple system fluting.
Have a Billy Miller Windwood bamboo D-- a very good flute which has solid intonation from low D to high (second-octave) G, but the second-octave A and B are way flat. As such, the B sections of many tunes suffer since most have an A or B in it.
I’m rolling the the flute out when playing those notes but they are still too flat for me. Is this just the inherent character of the flute (and perhaps most conical and/or simple system flutes, particularly at this price range), or might there be other things I can do?
FYI–I don’t know if this might have an affect, but because I have played the Boehm flute for years and years and still play it for Irish as well as classical music, I sanded down the embouchure hole under the front edge to create more undercut in the bamboo flute. Doing this really made the flute come alive for me and has allowed me to use nearly the same mouth embouchure for both my boehm and bamboo.
Thanks in advance for your insights.[/quote]