FLUTES



 

                    


               






    My flutes come in two types; Irish flutes and standard flutes. They come in many sizes, from tiny piccolos in the keys of G, F, or E  to Bass flutes, the lowest being low Bb and A in the Irish flutes and low C in the standard flutes. The tuning is precise and the flutes have a range of two and a third to two and a half octaves. They can be ordered in any key you would like.a                                


    The Irish flutes are all six holed. The six holed system is common to Folk flutes, Irish flutes, Chinese flutes and many other ethnic flutes around the world. The cheaper more highly decorated standard flutes are six holed in the smaller sizes (high D and above) and seven holed in the larger ones. The seven holed system is based on the metal or classical flute fingering and is also close to the recorder fingering although a thumb hole is not used as this isn’t necessary for producing the second octave. Both fingering methods are fairly simple and are basically single finger sequential, in other words if you start with all fingers down this is your bottom note, and if you lift them off one after the other the notes rise in a major scale sequence. The bottom note is therefore the key in which the flute is tuned or the bottom doh in the doh ray me fah so lah te doh scale. The top doh fingering is where the two systems diverge from the single finger sequence and they do it in different ways. All will be revealed in the fingering charts if you’re not familiar with the two systems already.


    I also make walking stick flutes which usually have three or occasionally just two flutes in each stick. And to all you Ti Chi and other eastern martial arts practitioners we make flute sticks which are basically single flute walking sticks.



PRICES OF STANDARD FLUTES  INCLUDING POSTAGE AND PACKING



                    BURNT FLUTES

                    High G,F,E...............£45

                    High D and C...........£48

                    High Bb and A........£51

                    G................................£54

                    F................................£58

                    E................................£61

                    D................................£66

                    C................................£72


                    PAINTED FLUTES

                    High G,F,E...............£48

                    High D and C...........£51

                    High Bb and A.........£54

                    G.................................£57

                    F.................................£61

                    E.................................£64

                    D.................................£69

                    C.................................£75



                    Please ring or email for availability and other prices.