Flute Equipment Survey 2004

256 Respondents:			Total # Instruments:	875
Amateur	127		Professional	114		Teacher	137
Primary Flute Make	#		Primary Flute Features	#		Flute Tube Material	#
Abell	1		Open Hole	193		10k Rose Gold	1
Altus	16		Closed Hole	31		14K Gold	14
Arista	1		C foot	66		8K gold	1
Armstrong	6		B foot	190		9K Gold	2
Brannen	16		Both C & B foot	9		Aurumite	5
Brannen Cooper	8		C# trill	84		Blackwood	1
Burkart	5		Gizmo	166		Gold	3
David Williams	2		In Line G	115		Gold plate	3
Edward Almeida	1		Offset G	131		Grenadilla	2
Fernand Chapelain	1		Split E	67		Nickel Silver	8
Gemeinhardt	6		Bigio C&S	22		PCM silver alloy	3
Goosman	1		Open G#	38		Platinum	1
Guo Brothers	1		Closed G#	199		Silver	186
Hammig	1		Left Low C# key	14		Silver plate	18
Haynes	26		Left Low B key	18		Wood	4
John Lunn	1		Convertable Low C#/B key	0
Jupiter	3		Convertable foot	2		Flute Tube Thickness	#
Koregolos	1		Lower G insert	41		0.01	1
Lopatin	1		Reversed Bb	3		0.011	1
Louis Lot	2		Gold Pads	8		0.012	3
Mateki	2		Head Ring	8		0.013	2
McCanless	1		Straubinger Pads	84		0.014	25
Miyazawa	20		Platuau Keys	48		0.015	9
Morelli	1		Pointed Keys	176		0.016	40
Muramatsu	23		Altered Keys	16		0.017	1
Nagahara	4		Piccolo	172		0.018	12
Osten - Brannen	2		Alto	70		0.12	1
Pearl	15		Bass	19		0.14	14
Powell	38					0.16	17
Prima Sankyo	11		Flute Scale	#		0.18	5
Rittershausen	1		435	1		0.4	1
Rudall Carte	2		439	1		0.43	1
Sakurai	1		440	79		Heavy wall	8
Selmer	1		442	135		Medium	2
Sonare	2		444	1		Thin	2
Straubinger	1
Tom Green	3		Headjoint Tube Material	#		Lip Plate Material	#
Tom Lacy	1		Silver w/ rose gold plate	1		10K Gold	1
Trevor James	2		10K Gold	2		14K gold	18
Yamaha	25		14K Gold	18		18K gold	3
Total Primary Flutes:	256		18K Gold	4		24K gold	2
			24K Gold Plated	1		9K gold	5
Headjoint Make/model	#		8K Gold	1		Gold	9
Abell	1		9K Gold	7		Gold Plated	7
Albert Cooper	2		Aurumite	6		Platinum	1
Almeida	1		Blackwood	1		Silver	21
Altus	9		Gold	5
Andrew Oxley	1		Grenadilla	3		Riser Material	#
Arista	3		Karritium	1		14k gold	32
Armstrong	5		Nickel	1		18K gold	5
Bigio	4		Platinum	1		24K gold	1
Brannen	9		Silver	165		8K gold	1
Brannen/Cooper	5		9K gold plate	1		9K gold	2
Burkart	11		Silver plate	1		Gold	27
Dana Sheridan	2		Silver plated	1		Platinum	16
David Williams	8		Silver/15% gold	1		Silver	54
Drelinger	16		18K gold plate	1		Gold Plated	1
Emmanuel	1		Wood	4
Ewen McDougall	1					Bass Makes	# Basses
Flutemakers of Australia	1		Headjoint Tube Thickness			Altus	4
Full Circle Lot	1		0.01	1		Armstrong	2
Gemeinhardt	4		0.011	1		Casey Burns	1
Goosman	4		0.012	6		Emerson	1
Haynes	13		0.013	3		Glassl	1
Ian McLauchlin	3		0.014	25		Jupiter	3
Jack Moore	2		0.015	5		Kingma	4
Jeff Weissman	2		0.016	22		Meyer	1
John Lehner	1		0.017	1		Opperman	3
JR Lafin Adler	5		0.018	6		Phillip Hammig	1
Jupiter	1		0.14	8		Rudall Carte	1
Lopatin	1		0.16	17		Selmer Paris	1
Louis Lot	1		0.18	2		Simon Polak	1
Martin Gordon	1		0.35	1		Yamaha	1
Mateki	2		0.38	1		Total Basses:	25
Miyazawa	16		0.4	2
Muramatsu	12		0.42	1		Alto Makes	# Altos
Nagahara	4		0.43	1		Altus	2
Pearl	10					Armstrong	10
Powell	34		Piccolo Makes	# Piccs		Artley	4
Sankyo	6		Arista	1		Emerson	2
Roger Young	1		Armstrong	10		Geminhardt	9
Sakurai	1		Artley	5		Haynes	1
Simmons	2		Artley Db	1		Jupiter	12
Tom Green	2		Brannen	6		KG Special	1
Trevor James	1		Braun	2		Kingma	2
Tudrey	1		Bundy	1		Opperman	2
Weisman	1		Burkart-Phelan	13		Pearl	7
Welan	1		Chinese	1		Prima Sankyo	3
Wimberly	1		Deboneetbeau Db	1		Rudall and Carte	1
Yamaha	12		Emerson	5		Selmer Paris	1
			Flutemakers Guild	1		Trevor James	10
Other Boehm C Flutes	#		Gemeinhardt	17		Yamaha	7
Altus	9		Gerard Hammig	1		Total Altos:	74
Aprenti	1		Guy Humphrey	1
Arista	1		Philip Hammig	14
Armand	1		Hans Reiner	1
Armstrong	19		Haynes	19
Artley	6		Haynes d flat	2
Barier	1		Helmut Hammig	1
Bettoney	1		Honi Db	1
Blessing	1		Jinyin	1
Bonneville	1		Keefe	4
Brannen	1		Louis Lot	1
Buffet	2		Monnig	1
Bundy	2		Opperman	3
Burkart	1		Orsi	1
Deboneetbau	1		Paris Knighton	1
Deford	1		Powell	14
E. F. Dean	1		Roweller	1
Emerson	3		Roy Seaman	9
Eppler	1		Selmer	3
Eudy	1		Weissman	9
Gemeindhardt	35		Woodwind Deluxe	1
Haynes	20		Woodwind/Brasswind	2
Hsing-Hai	1		Yahama	48
Jack Moore	1		Zenter	18
Jupiter	7		Total Piccolos:	221
King Cleveland	1
Lebret	1
Lopatin	1
Louis Lot	3
Miyazawa	4
Monnig	1
Muramatsu	15
Otto Monnig	1
Pearl	11
Powell	11
Prima Sankyo	2
Reynolds	2
Rittershausen	1
Rudall Carte	1
Rudolf Uebel	1
Sankyo	5
Selmer	1
Sonare	1
Takumi	1
Trevor James	4
Vito	1
Xinghai	1
Yamaha	36
Total Other Boehm Flutes:	225

Other construction features to Primary Flute D# roller on footjoint - Customized headjoint tenon at .014 to fit Sheridan head - Broegger mekanik - Broegger acoustic .958 silver tube with .925 silver keys 10K Gold Barrel and joint rings and D# roller 14K Crown (2 entries) 14K rose gold crown - 14K rose gold barrel rings - 14K rose gold body end ring - 14K rose gold boxes on both foot joints - 14K end rings on both foot joints - D# rollers on both foot joints 18K gold springs Black onyx gemstone crown Bo Pep saddle for left hand - Thumbalina for right hand thumb - rubber riser for left index finger Bo Pep saddle for left hand - Thumbalina for right hand thumb - rubber riser for left index finger Bob Ogren synthetic stopper Brannen key extensions Brögger lipplate Brogger Mechanik Brogger mekanik and acoustic D foot D sharp roller - facet barrel rings D# roller (7 entries) E flat roller Engraved lip plate (2 entries) Flute Body is rose gold plated. Keys are silver Flute headjoint was recut and body was fraised by Pat North of Cincinatti Flute Works (USA). Jupiter introduced the 711-II model in 1998 using new computerized equipment G insert G to A trill key Gold filigree on the crown with a ruby in the center of it Gold plated inner wall of headjoint half-offset G Hand made soldered tone holes High E3 facilitator added by J. Weissman soldered tone holes and a D# roller Instead of a Bb shake it has a B shake key Keys are Solid Silver and the tone holes are soldered gold Lims crown - 18K crown and insert Main tube shortened at lower end and small tube inserted into upper C# hole in order to compensate for traditional scale MeKenna Crown - Leopard Jasper and gold o-ring in the head - different crown pinless construction Previouisly- a right thumb button (cork) glued on; currently detachable right thumb rest made by Maarten Vissar re-cut embouchure hole Riser slightly over the top of the lipplate Rose Gold Plated body - Silver plated keys Seemed tubing selfmade saddle for left hand and selfmade right thumb pad/rest silver key work Simmons headjoint stopper and crown assembly Special upper C# button. Made longer and rounded to allow more comfortable position of RH first finger square holed keys Underslung E-mech - Pinless Left-hand - Nagahara's patented thumb mechanism Alterations to Primary Flute Homemade extensions of mahogany and cork on left hand All keys are gold-plated Angled foot joint keys- thumb keys moved up along the axis of the flute- C key raised B key heightened- enlarged- and flattened Brannen extension for G and G# keys D#/Eb Roller Footjoint cluster was moved 2mm. towards the baody G extension - G# extension - Lunn Bb cluster - Lunn angled footjoint cluster John Lunn extensions to the Left hand keys (which are closed hole and have tone holes placed correctly for this). The Right hand keys are open hole and without modifictation. The foot joint keys are angled Keys have not been customized- but mechanism as such: I ordered adjustment screws which are not a usual feature with this model line; I also asked for some adjustments with regard to the tension of some springs Lowerd venting to 2.9mm Plugged G and D keys Plugged several holes - added a G# extension Position and shape of C3 trill touch piece is "behind" the normal Bb shake key and straight - more like a saxophone's side key - not bent in similar shape as Bb shake key. Photograph can be seen at John Rayworth's website Roller on D# made short to accommodate slide to low C# with small fingers and avoid opening D# at same time The C# trill key was originally a button between the E key and the D# trill key. I had it changed to a lever above the BFl lever Pre-Boehm Flutes (74 listed) a variety of unmarked bamboo and wooden flutes- fifes- and whistles Anonymous English 8-key cocoa flute - Anonymous English 6-key cocoa piccolo Aulos Aulos baroque flute C. Kruspe Erfurt - Patrick Olwell Casey Burns Irish flute Copley & Boegli 6-key copy of Bart Kuijken's Rottenburg by Rod Cameron in boxwood at 415 and 392 - Grenser copy by Rod Cameron in grenadilla at 440 and 415 Desforges (1-key) Eugeny Albert Silver Flute. Th. Lammy niquel-silver flute Fife Folkers and Powell (Denner at A=414) - Prescott (Grenser at A=415 and 440) - Art Benade - A=415 Grenser Healy Irish Flute - Folkers & Powell Baroque Flute Laubé wooden 5-keyed Light wood six-hole flute M.J.H.Kessels/Nationale Fabriek (ca 1931) - M.J.H.Kessels (ca 1915) - Anonymous (ca 1840- incomplete) - Anonymous (20th century?) - Anonymous band flute in Ab (ca 1880?) - C. Kruspe (ca 1885) - Anonymous reform flute (ca. 1910) - J. Thibouville-Lamy p Meyer Nach Meyer 8 key & 12 key - reproduction Denner by Rod Cameron - no name Baroque single key Nach Meyer wooden 8-key flute with ivory headjoint - Keyless Irish flute in boxwood - Aulos Baroque flute- Stansby jr. model- A=415 Native American flutes no-name 6-key piccolo One-key boxwood traverso by unknown maker - One-key boxwood copy of a Grenser flute by Thomas Prescott Potter - Kauffmann - Orsi - Meyer Richard Hahn rosewood copy of A. Grenser 415 and 440 joints - Aulos plastic Stansby Jr copy - Two early 19th century flute in Eb and F by Rudall and Rose Siccama System Chappell Simon Polak - Beukers - Blackwood- A=415 - Simon Polak - Wijne- Boxwood- A=415 Simon Polak Beuker - M&E Rudall and Rose- Sweetheart Skip Healy 4 key conical bore Sweetheart Baroque flute--maple. Pratten system no name piccolo--grenadilla unmarked 8-key simple-system conical flute made in Germany Variety of Irish Variety of Irish wooden flutes July 6, 2004 Larry Krantz

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