This method should prove helpful to many flute owners.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcM4xjlZ0vc
Casey Burns
I used to work a wood chipper for a living,
oh god.
Heh heh, Bravo, Casey, that’s Quality Control at work!
The intonation sounded rather similar to my fabled Nicholson’s (un)Improved. I’m surprised that no-one had taken a saw (or chipper!) to it before now.
I have around here somewhere a UP chanter made by a South Australian maker and for some reason ripped end-to-end on the saw, straight down the middle. I never really did find out why. Just “one of those days”, I guess.
Unless perhaps he was intending to make a “half set”.
Terry
Friends, this is folk music. Clearly, what you have is a broken token.
Somewhere out there your own true lover awaits. It has been seven weary years; you will know him only by the curious half chanter he bears on a golden chain about his neck…
Yeah Casey! 
Best solution seen yet ! (will that sucker handle concrete ??? 
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In the video the chipper operator is getting his hands way too far into the chipper. It’s scary to watch. Machinery with rotating parts, such as a table saw, lathe, chipper, etc., require special caution and training for the operator. Material needs to be fed with a stick or board when you are near the parts that are rotating. Gloves, although they protect your hands when you are holding a branch for chipping, can be a hazzard when they are near the cutters.
I don’t understand why anyone would manufacture a flute that plays as badly as the flute Casey is demonstrating in the video. Surely, someone in the manufacturing organization has some concept of quality control. Does anyone have an answer to my query?
Trial and Error Doug, is mostly Error… 
The video credits do.
That was hilarious!
Although I have to second Doug on the wood chipper cautions – I’m not sure; maybe the actual chopper/grinder portion wasn’t running? – I have an arborist friend who lost most of his hand that way.
Not being able to cover the holes is REALLY rough on the intonation.
But funny as hell nonetheless; especially since I’m spending lots of quality time with my chainsaw post-“Ike-remnants.” My yard looks like a tree bomb went off!
Ahhh … good point… how much good hard flute wood will get plowed under I wonder… 
I noticed the same thing, and I agree with your observation.
I burn wood for heat (no oil, here!), and my favorite saw of late is a Stihl MS 440, but being careful is necessarily part of my annual woodcutting.
Chippers, saws, and splitters, these demand extra caution, always, and what that guy in the clip did was approaching stupid!
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Yeah, I cringed a bit. I also wondered if Casey Burns was wearing proper ear protection
… because a flute that out of tune has got to do some damage to one’s hearing.
Alas, mine’s all locust and water maple, so trash trees basically. But I’ve got at least two ricks, maybe three, of firewood out of it, I think. And we’ll rbe having a most excellent bonfire this year!
Stihl chain saws are the best. 
I’ve got a wee little 14" girlie Stihl, but it gets the job done.
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My first Stihl saw, an 038 AV, I bought new way back in 1981. I have cut literally hundreds of cords of wood with it, and it continues to run perfectly well.
However, as I simply can’t be without a saw, after all these years it came time to get the next replacement, a couple of years ago.
Yes, Stihl saws are reliable!
But, use caution!
Oh, you betcha. I like playing the flute too much not to. I also type for a living.
Not to wander too far off topic, here, but the real danger of a saw is in the tip of its bar, where “kickback” could very suddenly, and very dangerously, occur.
An expert could plunge the tip right into, and even through, a log, but otherwise this absolutely qualifies as “DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME”!
Knowing EXACTLY where the tip could be, at all times, is a fundamental rule of saw safety.
Ignore that rule at one’s own peril!
Whew, thank you, I just had to add that comment!
Hindsight…
A Poorly tuned flute can be easily corrected. If the Keynote scale is off, size adjustments to the embouchure or bore diameter can cure it. If there is an errant Tonehole, it can be size adjusted to cure flat/sharp pitch.
The “Woodchipper” was a good cure for the owners attitude though 
Would this work on my Ex-Wife? (sorry, the “Fargo” reference is applicable here!)