I am curious about flute babies weights.
Please share these intimate details if you can.
Here are mine (in grams, I don’t understand ounces):
Tipple D 3 piece PVC - 242g
Williams D 4key blackwood - 334g
Allan D 8key blackwood - 412g
Yamaha Boehm 211S metal - 402g
Aebi Bb no keys, no slide - 470g
Allan Eb no keys with slide - 308g
Bansuri B bamboo - 102g
(phpBB technical question: is it possible to use tables in these forum posts?)
~Hans
Wilkes Blackwood 8 key 508g
Rudall & Rose Cocus 7key 488g
Doyle Blackwood Keyless 284g
Hans has my 3-piece pvc low D weighing in at 242 grams, whereas
I just weighed one of my current 3-piece, 6-hole low D flutes on a digital scale and got 196 grams. I think that Hans has one of my earlier designed flutes with a copper tuning tenon, which are considerably heavier.
Yes, mine has copper piping for the joint and the tuning tenon, plus a wedge. This is a big weight reduction you achieved! Are you using aluminium for the tenon tubing now? The copper tubing I got weighs about 61g, plus 4g for the wedge (the small joint comes out and I could weigh it, then calculated the total). Aluminium is about a third of copper in specific weight, which should account for the difference. Looks like I need to order one of the new light weight Tipple flutes!
~Hans
508 g worth of D flute?? I found the weight of an 8-key Grinter (440 g) distracting; I can’t imagine another 50 g or so. Is your R&R a patent head?
I don’t have a very accurate scale, but this is what I remember from my stable:
Sweet 1-key rosewood: 190 g
Olwell all-wood rosewood: 225 g
Bleazey keyless boxwood: 270 g
Noy 1-key boxwood: 280 g
Olwell keyless boxwood, partially-lined head: 300 g
I think the von Huene and Olwell traversos both weigh in in the 240 g ballpark.
Selfmade keyless D flute, lined head, brass slide/lining, plumwood: 242 grams
The important thing I find in a keyed flute is not so much weight, but does it balance at the lefthand support. Both my keyed flutes do which helps stabilty.
Yup the R&R is a patent head, but it’s not particularly heavy.
My current design keyless D flute with silver head and barrel lining weighs 333 g. That includes 83 g of silver (65 for the liner tubes and 18 for the rings). The other 250 g is mostly blackwood plus a few grams for the delrin stopper and miscellaneous glue and cork. I agree with Treeshark that balance matters more than weight, which is why I prefer the long foot joint on any flute with a fully lined head.
Dave Copley
Loveland, Ohio
The concrete keyless is running about 650gm at the present design level… 
650gm or 650Mgm? 
Feels like Mega-grams…actually I’ve used much lighter foamed stuff in the past for acoustic matching layers…but that wouldn’t do here…yet…still working on it…
Is that with the all concrete patent head?
Dave Copley
Loveland Ohio
I think you can use any HTML you’d like in a post, as long as you don’t have the little checkmark below the post checked. So most likely, yeah, you can use tables.
Probably not patentable…stilll…
Anyone with a Delrin flute to weigh in: M&E, Seeri, Cochran …?
~Hans
My M&E R&R D-flute: 382 grams
F- flute: 284 grams
Both with rings and tuning slide of course.
Ah one last flute…
Paddy McChud holeless bog oak… 6.5kg
Ahh a didge 
the ultimate session weapon 
A didge!!! The ultimate session cannon made by the purest of pure drop makers and you call it a ‘didge’ if I was in my grave I would revolve rapidly. 
A McChud is completely holeless, even down the middle…
Oh sorry! Its a caber then, but a pretty light one. Still a pure dropper.