Ive sold my recently acquired Jon C. Rudall, the flute is rendered in Cooktown Ironwood and has Jon’s custom embossed rings. (What a piece of eye candy!) The flute is a very deft player and has a deep lilting voice and good intonation. The embouchure is similar to Olwell’s or McGee’s 2 Semi-Circles. This flute would definitely be a keeper, if I didn’t already have my beloved Copley.
Jon has graciously agreed to assist me with my Quest for a smallish holed Rudall.
So if you’re on a quest for a “smallish-holed Rudall”, what’s this one – it’s not small-holed by my definition, but it doesn’t appear to be large-holed.
This flute was not the object of my quest, but merely a diversion. I wanted to try one of Jon’s flutes and I must say I’m very impressed with his work!
OK Loren, should I say custom embossed rings? Anyway Jon does a good job of it, on two of the rings the pattern meshes exactly and the join is nearly undecernable.
Talasiga, sillydill is Swedish for pickled fish (course they spell it funny)! I’m surprised none of the Swedish patrons of this forum have contacted me about it.
Michae Coleman, I’ld like to hear about your small holed Rudall.
I guess I’ve been on a quest for a small holed Rudall since I had a McGee GLP. I really liked the response and I’m not after power, but I wanted more of a Rudallesque tone. I tried a McGee Rudall Refined and liked it, but it wasn’t in the best of shape, so I passed on it.
Jon has agreed to make a small holed Rudall for me with a short integrall foot (just the way I like it). But he said he had a restored PELOUBET that was almost exactly what I was looking for. Am I easilly diverted from my quest or what? Or is it a fool and his $$$? Anyhow here is the picture Jon sent me of the PELOUBET:
So I guess I’ll try this flute out and see if it fulfills my hearts desires. If not I’ll commission Jon to proceed with the small holed Rudall.
Hope this answers your question Chas. In trying to explain my own logic, the results are usually clear as mud!
None of us dared to contact you Jordan as we thought you were eeh.. a bit mentally unstable.
No sane person over here would have their sill (pickled herring) with dill. You can pickle the herring
with mustard, onions, garlic, tomatoes … but the dill goes on your potatoes.
To have your “sill” in “dill” is just plain silly
The cans of “Dillsill” you see at delicacy stores (or even IKEA) they are just for tourists.
A true Swede only eats “Matjesill” and of course “surströmming” (delicious fermented herring from the Baltic Sea).
Here is a new avatar for you Jordan, the legendary “Sill Cross”.
I preferr to think of myself as mentally dynamic, as opposed to unstable!
Thanks for the new Avatar, I’ll save it in case I need to cut down the “mightest tree in the forest”!
You must be from the right coast of Sweden where they don’t eat Lingon on all foods. My wife is from Göteborg. As for “surströmming”, nobody can tell me what it tastes like and nobody is willing to try it with me. For non-Swedes, “surströmming” must be eaten out-of-doors because the smell is so strong!
I thought this could be my new avatar, but it is to austere:
I guess I’ll answer that one since it is my flute!
I originally bought a stock Bleazy made of mopane. After playing it for a while I corresponded with Phil about having the toneholes rotated to fit my hand better. A year later when he was making flutes again I sent my old one back with a piece of paper showing where my fingers would go.
Phil traded my old one back plus a difference of obout 30 pounds to pay for a tuneup on the old one so that he could resell it.
It is not so much the size of the tone holes but the stretch, mostly for R3.
The reach for most people is probably pretty easy…it is just my personal preference.
Seems like a good enough reason. I have big hands so the Bleazey is super easy for me to play (yes I use the same grip as Turlach Boylan and Tom Doorley like rockstro only no curving in the left hand) plus it has good tone and volume with low air consumtion so I can really push this flute and not over play it.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say “Jon’s trademarked embossed rings?” Although I’m not sure he’s trademarked them. Hmmm. He definitely doesn’t emboss them himself–the silver wire comes that way-- but he’s known for using them . . .
Maybe “the embossed rings Jon is famous for?” Oh, no, that’s grammatically incorrect.
“The embossed rings for which Jon is famous?” Better.
The flute is a very deft player and has a deep lilting voice and good intonation. The embouchure is similar to Olwell’s or McGee’s 2 Semi-Circles. This flute would definitely be a keeper, if I didn’t already have my beloved Copley.
I’m surprised none of the Swedish patrons of this forum have contacted me about it.
Anyhow here is the picture Jon sent me of the PELOUBET:
