what’s the lowest simple system flutea human being can play?
Maybe this one?
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?p=218733#218733
This guy (Romy) makes gorgeous bamboo flutes. Plays them very well too!
Thank you! I wonder about straightforward Irish flutes,
too.
Thank you Glauber fo your self portrait .I trust that you are going to publish plans of the flute so we can all start lashing together our old drainpipes for our massed bands .
I’m sorry to tell you that that’s not me!
I think that’s the guy who makes these flutes (Romy B).
I knew you are better looking than that!
Hmm, the guy’s site seems to be offline. I hope i didn’t bring it down by putting that link! 
(no, he’s up again)
I have forwarded your excellent illustration to Mr Wilkes with my order .I trust I shan’t be disappointed ,now you have got me going , Glauber .
I wonder if he will be willing to supply one in ivory .
Chris Norman plays a boxwood flute in A (lower than Bb, of course)
and I’ve held (but not played) a Monzani boxwood in G.
NOt heard of lower, but with angled holes, can’t see why not. And with keys, it’s fairly endless.
Of course, you don’t mean digereedoos, right? those can be gargantuan…and played just fine…and with no holes.
Who makes flutes in A? Any idea?
Who makes flutes in A?
The same guy who made your Bb apparently makes a low-pitched flute in A, too.
Check out:
http://www.caseyburnsflutes.com/cat_low.php
Would be quite a thing to hear; rattle the floors.
The flute at the top in the picture is mine, I mean
that particular one.
The gorgeous mopane flute with the extended
foot and silver rings, below it, is John Skelton’s.
JS had CB add the rings and the extended foot.
I’m playing the flute quite a lot now
and it’s opening up. Doubled the
volume in the last couple of
weeks. It’s really a lovely sound. Best
Wow! I like the addition of the rings! I don’t know if you can see the stamp in this photo, but Casey outdid himself. It reads: “Mr. Skelton’s Weapon of Mass Terror.”
Hi!
It’s far from an Irish flute but the lowest flute I seen is a sub-contrabass in F made by Herbert Paetzold. Susato has them on their website, quite spectacular but very pricy. I would give a lot to try one, but not as much as 5k $ though. There is a video clip at tvfolk.net of Göran Månson playing the slighly smaller contrabass flute on Lortgubbens vals,
you can hint the sub-contrabass in the background.
Cheers!
BTW, I know I posted about this before but I just can’t help it, GM is a remarkable flute player and I have been playing his CD non stop for the last couple of weeks. I even find my self checking out recorders and baroque flutes on the net, shrug.
/MarcusR
I have already in several places
posted a link to a US based bansuri site
(bansuri-s made by Shri Jeff Whittier)
which includes a bass A bansuri (three finger D)
which is also available with optional pinkie for the lowest G#.
Could you reach it?
here it is again
Lowest contra-bass flute of the world?
deepest tone is subcontra C at 30Hz.
Here is a pic from www.fluteshop.de/de/angebot.html
Thanks for posting the picture.
I remember seeing one of these in the woodwind/brasswind catalog (wwbw.com). It was about $19,000! I still haven’t figured out exactly how it’s played!
Jeanie
Some info from the German webpage:
The picture shows a subcontra-bass flute in C and a contrabass flute in F.
The subcontra-bass flute is certified the biggest flute of the world, only two instruments were built.
Maker: Kotato & Fukushima, Japan.
The flute is 223cm (87.8") tall and 512cm (201.6") long.
Lowest tone subcontra C (ca 30 Hz).
The head with the mouthpiece sticks out to the left, the player would stand behind, facing the camera.
Don’t know what sort of embochure is on the mouthpiece.
You can hire the instrument from fluteshop.de, perhaps play for a wedding in the cathedral.
~Hans
Oh god, I must have one!
and I was thinking: thank God I don’t have one 