I got my new mopane flute from Casey Burns yesterday. It's a beautiful thing. Now the hard part will be not overplaying it until it is broken in properly!
i know exactly how you feel! i have a rather old wooden flute that i sent away to be repaired, and i was chuffed to bits when i got it back, except that i wasn''t allowed to play it all day long!
I also got a mopane flute from Casey Burns recently (a few months ago), and it was indeed heard not to overplay it those first few months. Now, unfortunately, I don't get to play it enough.
I bought my Boxwood Burns Pratten used so I wouldn't have to break it in . Although, I have bought a couple stuff new and do know what it is like, not fun.
Rudall, Pratten, Standard, or Folk? Rings and slide? Keys? Give us some specs.
It's a Standard model with no extras. I may eventually have a tuning slide and rings added, but it'll do for now.
I am actually surprised how well my homebrew pvc ones hold up to it (I thought I'd never be able to play them again after playing a "real" flute, but they actually hold up fairly well).
I got to demo my new flute along with several of my homebrew experimental ones (large minor key bass flutes and overtone flutes and such) this afternoon at our local science museum. I did a guest presenation on Flute Acoustics for a middle school (6th-8th grade) pysical science class. I also included my Bolivian and Peruvian made Andean winds (quena, quenacho, zamponas, and rondador). They received it well, I think. Hopefully they'll ask me back sometime.
The monthly session in North Oklahoma City is comming up on the 31st and I'm looking foreward to showing off my new flute!
Doug Tipple is the most renouned PVC Irish Flute maker. He actually turns tenon joints on them with a lathe.
I just use slip couplings for my joints. Mine are less well known, but I've sold a few on eBay. I mainly design an build them as a hobby. I've got photos and sound samples on my web site at www.theburnfieldcastle.com/flutes. I'm especially proud of the clear pipe flutes, they play decently and look really cool!
My Casey Burns flute arrived!
My Casey Burns flute arrived!
I got my new mopane flute from Casey Burns yesterday. It's a beautiful thing. Now the hard part will be not overplaying it until it is broken in properly!
# Posted on March 23rd 2006 by jasonlburnfield
Re: My Casey Burns flute arrived!
i know exactly how you feel! i have a rather old wooden flute that i sent away to be repaired, and i was chuffed to bits when i got it back, except that i wasn''t allowed to play it all day long!
# Posted on March 23rd 2006 by flisstle
Re: My Casey Burns flute arrived!
I also got a mopane flute from Casey Burns recently (a few months ago), and it was indeed heard not to overplay it those first few months. Now, unfortunately, I don't get to play it enough.
# Posted on March 23rd 2006 by smw
Re: My Casey Burns flute arrived!
I bought my Boxwood Burns Pratten used so I wouldn't have to break it in
. Although, I have bought a couple stuff new and do know what it is like, not fun.
Rudall, Pratten, Standard, or Folk? Rings and slide? Keys? Give us some specs.
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by Why Bother?
Re: My Casey Burns flute arrived!
It's a Standard model with no extras. I may eventually have a tuning slide and rings added, but it'll do for now.
I am actually surprised how well my homebrew pvc ones hold up to it (I thought I'd never be able to play them again after playing a "real" flute, but they actually hold up fairly well).
I got to demo my new flute along with several of my homebrew experimental ones (large minor key bass flutes and overtone flutes and such) this afternoon at our local science museum. I did a guest presenation on Flute Acoustics for a middle school (6th-8th grade) pysical science class. I also included my Bolivian and Peruvian made Andean winds (quena, quenacho, zamponas, and rondador). They received it well, I think. Hopefully they'll ask me back sometime.
The monthly session in North Oklahoma City is comming up on the 31st and I'm looking foreward to showing off my new flute!
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by jasonlburnfield
Re: My Casey Burns flute arrived!
Homebrew PVC flute? Tell us more. Stop me if this has been done to death already, I'm fairly new. Links or something?
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by mmelec
Re: My Casey Burns flute arrived!
Doug Tipple is the most renouned PVC Irish Flute maker. He actually turns tenon joints on them with a lathe.
I just use slip couplings for my joints. Mine are less well known, but I've sold a few on eBay. I mainly design an build them as a hobby. I've got photos and sound samples on my web site at www.theburnfieldcastle.com/flutes. I'm especially proud of the clear pipe flutes, they play decently and look really cool!
# Posted on March 24th 2006 by jasonlburnfield