I am introducing a new Tipple headjoint with a lip plate. The extra thickness of the lip plate allows me to cut an embouchure with a greater chimney depth, making my flutes play more like a standard wooden Irish flute. For details, verbal comments, and comparison audio clips, please visit my website. here
Since this is a commercial announcement, please send any questions or comments to me by PM or email. Thank you.
It would be pretty hard for me to make a commercial post.
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Eeeeeeeeuuuuuwwww !..that one certainly was ! 
You are certainly getting to the top end of plastic flute makers Doug. I think it’s a good innovation and am a little surprised by Michael saying the shallow chimney is easier for newbies, but bow to his better knowledge.
Some makers file away a lot of the body of the lip plate on the far side from the mouth, presumably to let the air flow (escape) more easily, I see this on some Healy’s and others even on Boehm system very expensive exotic metal headjoints, I don’t know if it has any real effect but easy enough to do on yours I would think, just another idea to find you something to do.
Wow, the clips really sound good. Your “improved” flutes are sounding more and more like wood to me. 'May have to try one sometime…
Dana
Doug, that’s pretty brilliant. Sounds beautiful 
Hi Doug,
that is a great development! Better and better!
Have you tried to make a head with the wedge, and drill the emb. hole through the wedge? That way you get extra depth without adding a lip plate.
Just an idea.
All the best,
Hans
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My Tipple flute is one with all-copper tenons, which can’t be upgraded with a lip plate.
I tried to sort of simulate the extra depth of a lip plate by moving the wedge up until it almost touched the blow edge of the embouchure hole. Originally, I had the wedge positioned far edge and this change necessitated a change in my embouchure. For 1st octave notes, my lips are stretched more in that flutey frown. The lip opening became rounded to sound the second octave.
For this mod, I put double-sided tape along the full-length of the bottom of the wedge for the extra tack so that it would stay put (during play, the wedge is hanging upside down). The wedge must be positioned carefully. If it sticks out over the blow edge at all, the sound is weakened. Popping the wedge to reposition is easy, however.
Yeah, we’re all out there, me included.
Looks awfully good, Doug.