Pat Olwell has made flutes out of polymer, Smoro! Just look at the first page of this thread and you’ll see what was said about it.
Stuart
Thanks for the advise, Stuart. I should imagine that “delrin” is polymer or a sort of polymer.Some technical words are a bit difficult for me, being spaniard.
S. Moro.
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On 2002-12-31 11:56, JessieK wrote:
I also have a boxwood Olwell without a tuning slide that is my favorite of the three. It has the richest, easiest to achieve sound. Go figure. It makes me wonder about metal-lined tuning slides. For people who claim to love a woody sound, we seem bent on letting it be muted in order to have a slide. The tenon-socket tuning works fine on a good flute and I think I actually prefer the lack of a metal slide, and definitely the lack of a fully lined head.
~J
This point has really got me to thinking. If the polymer flute head and the blackwood flute head are lined identically, it makes sense that switching between them would not affect the sound much.
Does anyone else here play a flute with an unlined head, and do you think it sounds more “woody”? I have fifes with both lined and unlined heads, but they are of different woods and their designs are so radically different that a comparison is meaningless.