Am I the only one that likes a round embouchure?
”Oh it is too hard, it doesn’t have volume, etc…”
It sure works well on the Tipples.
olwell
grinter
rudall&rose
wilkes
rama - you have a Wilkes ?
nice picture.
e.
Thank you, I feel sane again.
…gotta love those leaps of logic… 
I take what I can get.
Did you know a sock puppet invented the flute?
Ah…no…
I thought that the flute predated socks by a few days…weeks…etc. 
We all takes what we can get, and enjoy it as we are able.
Ah yeah, since I’m here…round is better at times.
The wide angle Boehm thing seems like it is not needed except by those that can not find a hole that is any smaller…
Some people really get lost with that much room.
hey e. man, i have just the wilkes hj only (with an ‘unmarked wylde’ body gotten from andrewk). it’s a tasty embouchure.
what timing…i had taken that pic (for a friend) not long ago so i suppose this was as good an opportunity as ever to use it here.
there are a couple more hj’s which didn’t make it in the pic, but i think the general theme can be seen.
I just can’t push a round embochure hard enough on a Rudall. I have recently discovered that I should probably get a Pratten because my two Rudalls can’t hold up to my playing they squeak when I push as hard as I want to, this means that I might be having a Flute sale pretty soon.
Does this have anything to do with this?
The more I play my round embuchure, the harder I play my square ones.
Selling R&Rs? Hmmmm...Not entirerly I was just remided of something else and felt the need to type it.
Man you are quick with that submit button! I was in the middle of editing a post and you answered!
He is isn’t he…
…and prolific. 
Man, that is cool. The flutes on sale?
We’ll see how things work out.
Well, if they do I know someone going the other direction (with a nice loud Healy (Pratten style) 6-key…)
(and how do you get this quote thing to work ?)
Edit: Ahhhh..that’s better!
Another thing after spending a little more time on my M&E which has a more rectangular/oval embochure I realized that the problem might be the embochure. I still like more power, I am trying to arrange a trade for that Hammy Doc Jones has that will have the power I want 
I wouldn’t be able to put in the needed cash for a 6 key, I also might be trading it back to the previous owner for a Hernon as that is oval. Well if it does go on sale I will not be able to put any thing up here because I have used up my one per month so if yous guys have any intrest in it just give me a PM. So I don’t really like round holes myself and I like to lean into a Flute.
The shape of the embouchure on the Hammy isn’t all that different from that of your typical Rudall. When I measured the embouchures on all my flutes (I believe this included the M&E), they all came in about the same except for my Bleazey Rudall, which, believe it or not, was a little bigger. They were all the same length (along the length of the flute, within less than a mm), but the Bleazey was 1-2 mm wider. The specifics of the cut may be, I don’t have a good enough eye for that.
If we’re talking elliptical/oval vs. modern/rectangular, what I’ve found is that, yes, you can push the modern cut a little harder, but it’s much less versatile and has less depth of character. (My wife, a lifelong Boehm player who’s recently taken up simple-system flute, agrees.)