Hello everyone,
in case you are interested to see and hear a boehm flute with a mark hoza wooden head being played, there are a few small video clips of a performance we did recently at the site http://www.xenovibes.com
In the videos section, the song “I verity” features a solo played on an emerson model 8 flute with the hoza head.(this is my main flute for gigs).
WARNING, this is NOT ITM, it is a very electronic band. I keep on meaning to record a few irish tunes with the wooden head, but have not yet got around to it.
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Also not ITM, but if anyone would for some weird reason want to hear me playing Brazilian music and Bach on my old Miyazawa with Hoza head, go to http://www.woodenflutemaker.com/HeadJoints.html and scroll to the bottom of the page… That’s just me in the basement, with the computer’s microphone, no effects – it does have a huge sound, even in these crappy recordings. I think my favourite is #3, but “Wave” is kinda nice too. I kept all clips at 1 minute or less, to keep them light.
Those are from a book called “24 Concert Studies from the Works of JS Bach”. The cheap edition in the US is from Southern Music, but there’s probably a better edition in Europe.
They’re very good (some are pretty hard), but most of them go down to low C, and since i do mostly Baroque flute these days, i don’t use them much anymore.
Nice playing, Glauber. I enjoyed the Bach, but I especially liked the three Brazilian pieces, with #3 being my favorite, as well. The headjoint sounds good, but I was shocked when I saw the price.
It was substantially less when i bought mine; i wonder why it went up so much. I wouldn’t have bought it for the current price (and it would have been my loss).
On the plus side, Mark is a great guy and a pleasure to work with. I expressed to him my uneasiness to buy something without trying it first, and he sent me 3 heads to try. The file names for those clips start with 121, 122, and 123, the serial numbers of the heads i was trying. I kept 121. They were very different from one another (not in look, but in how they played and sounded).
Even after i bought it, he kept insisting that i could send it back so he could change whatever aspect of it i don’t like. I never did, because i think adapting to the challenges of a new instrument is half the fun.