Just to mention a new and developing set of flute articles on line:
http://www.robertbigio.com/index.htm
You’ll find some articles and papers by Robert, and recordings of early 20th century flute players, including Amadio, who is presumably playing his Radcliff flute. Robert’s interests span the 19th century to present, so some articles may not be of interest to all of us. But he has some very useful stuff coming up, so stay tuned!
Terry
Thanks for the link Terry…great stuff that!
JD
I especially like the article on Chris Norman–which includes the revelation (for me at least) that Chris is following in Rod Cameron’s footsteps as a maker. (One of the photos shows the top end of an F flute he’s made.)
You can see how the whole slippery slide descent into madness happens, can’t you. You pick up a tin whistle for a few dollars and find out it is possible to play music. Then someone lets you try their flute, and it’s like poor Toad in Wind in the Willows, poop poop…vrooooom, you have to have one. That seems like harmless fun, but after a while, some inner demon starts to wonder out loud “I wonder if it’s possible to make one of these?” After a lot of stuffing around, you do, and then your friends, thinking they are doing you a favour, admire it. They should have recognised the signs by now, and sought help for you, but no. Several flutes later, and someone offers to buy one, and your fate is sealed. Now you can rationalise that you need a dedicated workshop, better equipment and vast stores of materials, which of course then locks you in - you can’t have all that stuff going to waste. And you no longer have time for the real job, so you toss that. Now you are fully dependant on your habit. The flute has won!
Of course, it would be worse still if you then went on to do flute research…
Terry