Introduction, and a closelook at an Irish flute
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irishflute.html
About My Irish Flutes
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about.html
D & Eb
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models.html
Bb & B
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Low%20flute%20models.htm
Materials
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materials.htm
Of Heads and Barrels
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heads.html
About Keys
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keys.html
Foot Considerations
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feet.html
Accessories
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accessories.html
Ordering a flute
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ordering.html
Prices and order form
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orders.html
Flutes available now!
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Avail-flutes.htm
Piccolos
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piccolos.html
New Heads for Existing Flutes
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new_heads.htm
Flutes for Classical Music
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classical.html
About Terry McGee - flute maker
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Resume.htm
How My Wooden Flutes are Made
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making.html
The New Improved Tuning Slide
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fluteslide.html
The Modern Cut Embouchure
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modern.html
The McG# Key
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mcgsharp.html
The Revised C Foot
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c_foot.html
The Improved Cleaning Rod
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rod.html
The Smoothflow tone hole
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smoothflow.html
The "Great Australian Bight" Mic Clip
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mic-clip.html
The MinimumDisruption Tenon
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Minimum-Disruption-Tenon.html
Solar powered flute making
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Solar_powered_flute_making.htm
Flute Repairs and Restorations
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repairs.html
A repair for cracked heads andbarrels
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headcrack.html
A repair for cracked sockets
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cracked_sockets.html
The immovable slide
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immovable_slide.htm
Broken and Missing keys,Impossible pads
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keys&pads.html
"Cures" for High Pitch flutes
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HighPitchCure.htm
Getting the hard dark tone
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Getting_the_hard_dark_tone.htm
Gunn, on tone and holding the flute
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Gunn%20on%20Tone.htm
Nicholson on Flute Tone and holding the flute
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Nicholson_on_Tone.htm
Rockstro onHolding the Flute
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Rockstro onTone
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Rocksto_on_tone.html
Humidifying Flutes
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Humidifying_flutes.htm
Cocus wood
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Cocus.htm
RTTA Systems, Polygraph & Flutini
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RTTA.htm
The RTTA Polygraph
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ReelTimeTuningAnalysis.htm
RTTA Polygraph Download & Setup
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RTTA/setup.htm
Using the RTTA Polygraph
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RTTA/using.htm
Customising the RTTA Polygraph
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RTTA/versions.htm
Historical Flute Syndromes
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Historical%20Flute%20Syndromes.htm
Flute Myths Exploded!
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FluteMyths.htm
Frequently Asked Flute Questions
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FAQ.htm
Choosing a Flute for Irish Music
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flutepick.html
A guide to the lengths of flutes
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flutelengths.htm
Flute ergonomics
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Ergonomic.htm
Learning to Play Irish Flute
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Learning.html
Learning to use the keys
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Learning-the-keys.htm
Breaking in and Getting Used to aNew Flute
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newflute.html
Care of 19th century flutes
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flutecare.html
Care of McGee flutes
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McGee-Flutes-Care.htm
Modern Keyless Flute
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keyless.html
Modern6-key flute
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Modern_6-key_Fingering_Chart.html
French Five Key Flute (forCharanga)
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5keyfingers.htm
Eight Key Flute (19th Century)
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fingering.html
Pratten"s Perfected OriginalFingering Chart
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PratFing.htm
Pseudo Old-System Fingerings
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Pseudo%20Old-System%20Fingerings.htm
Radcliff flute
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Radcliff%20Flute%20Fingering.htm
Richard Potter"s Patent Flute Fingering
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PotterFing.htm
Siccama"s Fingering Chart
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Siccama"s Fingering Chart
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The Preface, Ceol Rince nahÉireann, Vol 1
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CeolRince1.htm
Resources for Irish Flute Players
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resources.html
Miking Your Flute for Stage andRecordings
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flutemic.html
Flute and Flute-Making Bibliography
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bibliography.htm
Wooden flute plans
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Plans.htm
How to Repad Your Wooden Flute
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repad.html
Photographing flutes
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photos.htm
Measuring rotational angles in the field
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Angle%20measurement.htm
About Paul
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Davies.htm
Terry McGee"s Recollections
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Davies_Terry.htm
Other People"s Recollections
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Davies_Other.htm
Introduction to the HistoricalFlute Studies
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Res_intro.html
My Research Colleagues
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colleagues.htm
Historical Veracity in the Documentation of the Flute
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Historical%20Veracity.htm
Interpreting HoleDistribution Charts
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HoleSpaceCharts.htm
An Introduction to Venting Charts
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vent_charts.htm
Cents to Hertzconversion
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cents_to_hertz_calculator.htm
Movers and Shakers in 19thCentury 8-key flute development
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movers.htm
Sales of flutes in the 19th century
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Flutesales.htm
Original 8-key Flute Prices
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OrigPrices.htm
Gunn, on tone
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Gunn%20on%20Tone.htm
Nicholson on Flute Tone
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Nicholson_on_Tone.htm
C. Nicholson"s Improved - theturning point
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nicholson.html
Development of C.Nicholson"s Improved
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Nicholson_development.htm
Nicholson"s OwnFlutes
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Nicholson%27s%20Flute.htm
Bainbridge"s Observations
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Bainbridge.htm
Thomas Lindsay"s: A Few PracticalHints
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Lindsay.htm
Before Rudall met Rose
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GeoRud.htm
Before Rose met Rudall
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RoseB4Rudall.htm
Rudall & Rose: Flute-MakingIcons
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Rudall.html
Rockstro analyses the intonation of a flute from Rudall & Rose
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RockstroAnalysesRRflute.htm
Rudall & Rose No 519 - earlysuccess
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RR519.htm
Rudall and Rose No 742 - aparticularly famous Rudall
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RR742.htm
An Imposition against the Public- a Rudall Fake!
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RR_fake.htm
Rudall & Rose Bb flutes
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rudall_Bb.htm
Rudall & Rose 1832 Patent Head
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RR_Patent_Head.htm
Inside the Patent Head
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patent.html
Rudall & Rose Patent Head Maintenance
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Rudall_Rose_Patent_Head_Maintenance.htm
The Search for Rose"s ImprovedConoidal Bore
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NewCone.htm
Rose"s Perfected Flute?
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Rose1847patent.htm
Rudall Carte 916 - an "old-system"flute
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RC916.htm
Development of the Rudall flute
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Rudall_Development.htm
Rudall Carte Workshop views(big!)
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RC_Wshop1922.htm
Some unusual Rudalls
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RR_Odd.htm
Rudall"s Workers
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Ruddal%20Workers.htm
Rose versus Camp at the Old Bailey
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Rose%20vs%20Camp.htm
A Rudall CarteTransplant
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Flute%20Transplant.htm
The Rudall, Rose or CarteModels Study
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RRCstudy.html
The Questionnaire
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RRCquest.html
The Conclusions
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conclusions.html
Carte"s "Sketch of theSuccessive Improvements in the Flute"
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CarteSketch.htm
"General Remarks" from Rudall Carte"s catalogue
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General%20Remarks%20from%20the%20Rudall%20Carte%20catalog.htm
Introduction and Biography
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Carte-Saint-or-Sinner.htm
The Saga of Boehm’s 1847 “Essay”
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Carte-Suppression-Boehm-essay.htm
Richard Carte’s Claims in Relation to the Exhibition of 1851
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Carte-medals.htm
Rudall Carte’s Comments on Clinton"s "Extreme" Holes
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Carte-on-Clintons-holes.htm
Richard Carte’s Comments regarding the 1847 Boehm Patent
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Carte-on-Boehm"s-patent.htm
Claim to Priority as an English-born Player of the Boehm Flute
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Carte-Priority-Claim.htm
Carte’s Credibility – A Summary
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Carte"s-Credibility.htm
Cornelius Ward Contents Page
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Ward.htm
Clinton story Contents Page
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clinton.html
Alexander Liddle
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Liddle.htm
The Metzler family
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Metzler.htm
Metzler Flutes
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Metzler_Flutes.htm
Introduction to Siccama and his flute
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Siccama.html
Siccama"s 1845 Patent
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Siccama%20Patent.html
Siccama"s Newly InventedDiatonic Flute
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Sicc-1851.htm
Siccama"s 1-key Flute - A Reconstruction
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Siccama"s-1-key-Flute-Reconstruction.htm
More on Siccama"s 1-key flute
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Siccama-1-key-more.htm
Extant Siccama flutes
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Sicc_Ext.htm
Siccama-style flutes byother makers
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Sicc_Ext_others.htm
Robert Sidney Pratten, the man.
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Pratten.htm
Hudson - Pratten"s able coadjutor?
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Hudson.htm
Pratten"s Perfected FingeringChart
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PratFing.htm
TheMysterious Anonymous Pratten-style flute
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The%20mysterious%20anonymous%20Pratten-style%20flute.htm
Extant Pratten Flutes
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Prattens-Extant.htm
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The%20mysterious%20anonymous%20Pratten-style%20flute.htm
John Pask, Flute Maker
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Pask.htm
Ribas"s Improved Flute
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Ribas.htm
Pask defends the old flute
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PaskLetter.htm
A long-body flute by Pask
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PaskLong.htm
American Flute maker, William Hall
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Hall.htm
An Interesting Collaboration onFirth, Pond & Co
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Grey.htm
Firth Pond & Co, New YorkMakers
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Firth&c.htm
Christman"s Christmas Day
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Christman.htm
onHolding the Flute
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onTone
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Rocksto_on_tone.html
Genesis of the Radcliff Model Flute
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Radcliff-genesis.htm
Boehm"s Schema
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Boehm"s%20Schema.htm
Boehm Flute Head Bore
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BoehmHeadBore.htm
Cylindrical flutes - a History of Holes
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Cylindrical%20flute%20holes.htm
Some letters from Boehm
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Boehm%20letters.htm
Letter to Broadwood from Theobald Boehm, 17 March 1866
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Letters to Musical Opinion, 1889-90
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Benjamin Wells" letter to Musical Opinion, January 1890
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Wells%20letter%20to%20Musical%20Opinion.htm
1851 World Exposition
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1851%20World%20Exposition.htm
Flutes at the 1851 Exposition
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1851%20Exhibition.htm
The 1862 London Exhibition
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1862%20London%20Exhibition.htm
A Visit to the 1862 London Exhibition
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Pontecoulant.htm
Wind Instrument Exhibitors 1851 – 1862
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Wind%20Instrument%20Exhibitors%201851%20to%201862.htm
Flutes at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890
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Flutes%20at%20the%20Royal%20Military%20Exhibition,%20London,%201890.htm
Richard Potter"s Patent Flute
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PottersGermanFlutePatent.htm
Henry Potter
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henry_potter.htm
Ball, Beavon & Co - a PostBoehm cylinder flute
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BallBeavon.htm
Jordan Wainwright - Australia"sFirst Flutemaker?
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wainwright.htm
An interesting Danish flute
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larshof.htm
Señor Giorgi"s Flute Patent
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Giorgi-flute-patent.htm
A Liturgical Look at the Flute
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Skef.htm
Keith, Prowse & Co - the otherperfected 8-key
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KProwse.htm
Later Bb Flutes
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Later%20Bb%20flutes.htm
Left-Handed Flutes
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LH-flutes.htm
Flute key marks and makers
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Keymarks.htm
Numerical Key Marks
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Key-marks_numerical.htm
Unusual flutes
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unusual.htm
The McGee-Flutes ResearchCollection
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collection.html
Links to other historical flutesites
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Hist_links.htm
2002 Self-Indulgent Flute-maker"sTour
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2002trip.htm
Solomon Blackwood - a new woodwind timber?
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Solomon%20Blackwood.htm
Purse Pads or Elastic Balls?
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Purse-pads_or_Elastic-Balls.htm
The Rise and Fall of English Pitch
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eng_pitch.html
Society of Arts Pitch
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Society%20of%20Arts%20Pitch.htm
19th Century Flute Tuning
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Tuning.html
The Great Flat Foot Experiment
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flatfeet.html
Determining Best Pitch in flutes
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best_pitch.html
C# to D# - a more useful indicatorof flute pitch?
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CsharpEb.htm
Changes in Flute Scaling in the 18th and 19th centuries
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Changes-in-Flute-Scaling.htm
A Survey
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wrap-survey.htm
Analysis
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wrap-analysis.htm
A test tenon
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wrap-test-tenon.htm
Recovery
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wrap-recovery.htm
Musings
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wrap-musings.htm
Restoration Issues
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wrap-restorers.htm
Your flute
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wrap-your_flute.htm
Conclusions
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Introduction
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Wrap2-Intro.htm
Original Bore Shape
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Wrap2-Original.htm
Musings
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Wrap2-Musings.htm
A Plan
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Wrap2-Plans.htm
Plan B
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Wrap2-PlanB.htm
Plans A & C
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Wrap2-PlanA.htm
Hysteresis?
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Wrap2-Hysteresis.htm
Plan D
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Wrap2-PlanD.htm
A Test Tube
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Wrap2-TestTube.htm
Ovality
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Wrap2-Ovality.htm
Introduction
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Comparisons.htm
Classical Bores (I have known
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bores.htm
A comparison of Venting
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Venting%20Comparisons.htm
A comparison of Scaling
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Scaling-comparisons.htm
Comparison Summary
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Comparison-Summary.htm
Effect of Heat and Cold on WoodenFlutes
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temps.html
Effect of Stopper Position
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Stopper.html
Effects of Humidity onBlackwood
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humidity_change.htm
A pine Prattens?
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pine_prattens.htm
Introduction
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FluteTone-Intro.htm
Analysing an existing recording
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Flutetone-Analysing_an_existing_tune.htm
A Picklist of Potential Investigations
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FluteTone-Picklist_of_Potential_Investigations.htm
Technical Resources
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FluteTone-Technical-Resources.htm
Further Reading
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Flutetone-Further-Reading.htm
Audio Lab Control Unit
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FluteTone-Audio_Lab_Control_Unit.htm
AcousticImpedances of Classical and Modern flutes
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http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute
Boehm flute "Revised Scale 2011"
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http://www.trevorwye.com/cooper1.html
Rick Wilson"s Historical Flute Page
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http://www.oldflutes.com/
Robert Bigio"s Flute Pages
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http://www.robertbigio.com/index.htm
CDs of Wooden Flute Music
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cds.html
Fixing Scratched CDs
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scratches.html
Other Interesting Music and Arts Sitesin Canberra and Australia
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links.html
Introduction to Visual Analyser
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VA-Intro.htm
Visual Analyser - Oscilloscope
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Visual-Analyser-Oscilloscope.htm
Visual Analyser - The Second Channel
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Visual_Analyser-The_Second_Channel.htm
Visual Analyser - Calibration
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Visual_Analyser-Calibration.htm
Australian Carillon Studies
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Australian%20Carillon%20Studies.htm
Bellclapper impact dynamics and the voicing of a carillon
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http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/people/publications/Fletcheretal2002.pdf
Carillon Bells - List of Partials
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BellPartials.htm
Internal versus External Clappers
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External_versus_Internal_clappers.htm
High Clapper
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HighClapper.htm
Comparison of electronic and real bell sounds
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ElectronicVsCastBells.htm
Effect of slightly worn clappers
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slightly-worn-clappers.htm
Introduction to Concertina Studies
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Concertina/Introduction_to_concertina_studies.htm
Concertina issues to be investigated
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Concertina/Concertina_Issues_to_be_investigated.htm
Concertina Pneumatics Laboratory
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Lachenal Duet Concertina Reeds
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Tin Whistle Buttons
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Tin_Whistle_Buttons.htm
Tin Whistle Retuning
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Tin-whistle-retuning.htm
Straighten a curved capo
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Straighten-a-curved-capo.htm
Jesse Rowan
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jessepage.html
Jesse"s Mum"s House
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But where?
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Relocate.htm
Finding a builder
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Building at Malua Bay!
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Building.htm
Settling in
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Jesse"s Sewing Room/Creative Space
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Ballyhooley
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Ballyhooley.htm
The name Ballyhooley
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Jesse Singing
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Jesse-Singing.html
Old Gold Folk Club
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OldGoldFolkClub.htm
The Canberra Ceili Band
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ceiliband.htm
The Malua Bay Improvement Group
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MBIG/default.htm
Eurobodalla Woodcraft Guild
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http://www.eurobodallawoodies.org.au/
Malua Bay Rural Fire Brigade
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http://www.maluabay.rfsa.org.au/
time reckoner
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Time_Reckoner.html
http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-24785
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-24785