in the mail today. It’s keyless and made of mopane. I find it difficult to play in the second octave. The second octave sound is thin, weak and raspy. When I push the end of the flute away from me, so I’m blowing a bit more left to right across the blow hole, it improves a bit. Is this normal for keyless wooden flutes? Do the polymer ones act this way too? How about the expensive wooden ones? The one I have is an inexpensive one. The lower octave has such a big round and beautiful sound. Thanks for the help.
Do you mind mentioning who made it? If you’d rather not, that’s cool.
It’s normal for beginners.
The second octave is always harder when you’re new to conical flute. If you are used to silver flute, you do have to blow more into the embouchure.
Eric
It sounds from your questions like this might be your first experience with a flute . . . is that true?
If that’s the case, then it’s probably completely normal. You just need to keep working at it! The second octave will come with practice and patience. Usually, it doesn’t take a lot of manipulation of your embouchure to get to the second octave. If I remember right, it seemed like it took a WHOLE lot of work at the beginning, but it gets better.
Or, I could be way off base! But that sounds like what I remember from my first fluting experience.
Stuart
for the last 28 years. I’m not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m not bad either. I easily can play 2.5 octaves on it. I’d rather not mention the flute maker now. I might just be experiencing user error and the flute is appears very well made and is quite beautiful. I know a couple of long time Irish flute players in my city that I’ll ask to play it to see if it is me or it.