Anybody playing Serov´s flutes???
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Nobody???
I played one at Dusty Strings, in Seattle, recently. Nice full sound, very crisp, and easy to play. However, the keys looked very cheap-- made of some indeterminate metal and not at all pretty. The springs were made of old ball-point pen springs. The rings were made of brass. I didn’t much like the way the flute looked. The blocks were somewhat crude. Very workmanlike, not much finesse. IMHO, a good player but visually unappealing.
BTW, the way the shop kept the flutes is appalling. They are presented in a case with no source of moisture, in a fairly dry shop. I would never leave one of my flutes on consignment with them. I spoke to somebody there about humidifying the environment in the case and he said the situation would be corrected. Any word on that?
David, you expect subtleties of environmental control from a place that can’t even be bothered to wipe the dust off its strings?
as a matter of interest ,does anyone have any sugestions on how to humidify a display cabinet?
It’s very easily done. Fill a cup with water and using a face cloth as a wick just set the cup in the cabinet. The cabinet needn’t be airtight but should be sealed well enough to keep the cabinet humid.
A cheap hygrometer is available at Radio Shack for about $30. Cheap and easy enough considering the value of the flutes we all have.
Thanks, that’s the same solution that I came up with! I just assumed that there must be an overcomplex and more technologicaly impressive way!
I tried out that serov at dusty strings yesterday, I wasn’t all that impressed, the keys look a lot like the keys I saw on an original R&R once, the block mounts weren’t in places that work well for flat fingering so it forces you to play with your fingertips. OTOH I played on the copeland low D they had there and fell in love…