I hope that you new headjoint fits my flute because I want to try it sometime! You still need to try my Nagahara too. I am happy that you did finally get to try a silver Powell. *Kara grins* Have fun with your new baby!

That sounds like a great head, Dennis! Congratulations on finding one you were happy with! You'll have to let us hear you with your new and improved set up once you get a chance! Have fun with it! One more moral I'd like to add to the testing flutes thing...Don't go in with a preconceived notion of what flute/headjoint you want. Dennis ended up with something completely different from what he expected, when I was flute shopping, I specifically thought I didn't want a Tom Green, but what did I end up with? A Tom Green! There are tons of instruments out there, and what you think you want isn't always what you need, so keep your options open.

The last time I went headjoint shopping, I tried wood headjoints.

Three of the headjoints were completely unremarkable. These were two Howel Roberts heads and one Full Circle.

One headjoint played well, and could get a nice woody sound- the one I thought I'd surely buy- was a Yamaha EC cut grenadilla. I really liked the two sterling Yamaha EC cut headjoints I tried, so I figured this would be a winner. It was nice, and good for the purpose.

The one I played for three notes and knew I would buy (and did...) was a Powell Grenadilla Philharmonic cut. (I DID put it through a more thorough, though not as involved, as Dennis' play test.) This headjoint had sooo much more flexibility of response, and depth of tone, than the Yamaha.

By the way, I sold my Gemeinhardt 3SHB when I realized that it was seriously sharp on several notes, while in tune on others. While my old, old Armstrong 104 Nickel flute had a lousy tone, it had MUCH better pitch (against the tuner) than the Gemmie.

I bought a Yamaha flute which has always had very good pitch. I also have played several Gemeinhardt models new, against a tuner, and found that they had EXACTLY the same problem notes for pitch. This is 12 Gemeinhardt flutes, in 3 years, played against a tuner, that I base my 'bias' on- and that is that Gemeinhardt flutes have a pitch issue. (I did test other flutes such as Pearl, Powell Sonare, and other Yamahas at the time, and none of these had near the pitch problems of the Gemeinhardts.)

a great headjoint is very liberating, and you can change it someday if it fails to suit your needs, so many great headjoint makers out there these days

congratulations on the new headjoint!!! I think I've heard of Young before...not sure