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Start to look at this area when you have played another flute for a while and know more about what you want.į. Prices can go up to 1200 Euros, waiting times can vary enormously and people’s preferences as to which maker is "best" also vary enormously. keyless flutes by named and admired makers (Including Casey Burn’s standard flutes). The minimalist style is also very atractive.Į.
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Mine fills the role of the campfire flute admirably. I personally would recommend this as a good starter. No tuning slide, but tunable within the range of most player/session combinations that are likely to crop up. Folk flute by Casey Burns - Real wood, acoustically very nice (at least the one I have is, as are all the others I’ve seen in the flesh.). M&E, Seery or Dixon conical polymer flutes - I don’t know anything about these but a lot of people start on them - make sure that a dixon is a three piece conical one, not the two piece cylindrical one.ĭ. I don’t own one in D, but I do have one in F which is fine.Ĭ. PVC cylindrical flute from Doug Tipple with Fajardo wedge - not to be confused with plain cylindrical PVC flutes by "someone on ebay". So the advice is to go with a keyless until you know enough about flutes not to need to listen to my advice, at which point you can start the quest to find the right top end keyed flute for you.įrequently recommended startup options are (in order of roughly increasing price/quality)Ī. Most bending of tones will be done by the embouchure and breath support.Ī keyed flute of high quality is far harder to come by and lots more expensive than a keyless. Bflat is questionable but also doable for short notes and Eflat is impossible. In order of importance (and in ordeer of increasing difficulty), the accidentals CNat, FNat and Gsharp are all doable with either half holing or cross fingering - half holing being easier on a flute with larger holes. A Keyless flute will do for almost all of the tunes in this repertoire.