YOu know that some companys makes Bb foots? is it really useful? I know that the weight of a B foot improves the Upper register but don`t know about the Bflat foot.

..no..nobody has a Bb foot unless you get it specially made. It`s totally useless. No professional flute maker makes a flute with a "Bb foot"

The improvement of the upper register from having a B foot is miniscule and some flutes regardless of their feet type will have better response/tone just do to slight im/perfections that every flute has.

A B foot is handy as there are pieces that call for them. Perhaps far and few between, but just last week I experienced two pieces that had low B`s. One piece suprised me with a low B on a page turn and another was a flute part which specifically said "3rd flute with B foot" which I thought was silly until I looked for the low B`s... one movement had 16 low B & quarter rest patterns in a row. Oi!

When playing Mahler 5 I encountered a low B flat - I assume that for all Mahler`s brilliance this was a technical error on his part. As with nearly all low Bs in orchestral music it would have been inaudible anyway, so nothing was lost!

they do make them. i have 1 on my flute. the man at the store where my mum got my flute from said so.

I highly doubt that.

Does anyone have a picture?

Bb foots do exist, but I don`t think any current day flute makers are making them. Probably on special request. They are so hard to search and find, did google a pic once.

Take a look at this nonsense! a marketing company (for Jinyin) who think that Bb-foot is the same as B-foot.

http://www.cybermusicalinstruments.com/db/cmidb/uid=112600310117905&var=lng=en&var=pr=Concert%20Flute%20C%20-%20professional%20-%20open%20hole%20-%20nickel%20plated%20body%20-%20with%20E%20split%20-%20Bb%20foot%20JINYIN&var=cat=2&template=produit.html

I see that kind of crap on ebay all the time. When you try explain it to the seller that it is a B-foot and not a B-flat foot they always do some kind of come back saying that they are correct because that is what the music store told them.

It drives me crazy!! Why do so many people (even flute players!) call it that all the time?

If you play the flute, then you should know that it doesn`t go to a B-flat! If someone doesn`t, I have to seriously question their playing skills.

"Why do so many people (even flute players!) call it that all the time? "

I think it is because they hear the term Bb so often.. Bb clarinet, Saxophone in Bb, trumpet in Bb. In the key of Bb. "Low Bb" (for the lowest not of a saxophone or oboe). A "low Bb" (baritone sax as opposed to a low A baritone sax)

You hear this term far more than you hear `low B`, or even just `B`.

So without thinking, they just use this common term.

Doesn`t that picture show a C foot on that flute?

Yes. It also states "JINYIN - Concert Flute C - professional - open hole - nickel plated - E split key - B foot"

"Profession"!!!! - Indeed!
I`ve just worked on one of these. There was about 0.2 mm play in every pivot! On a PROFESSIONAL flute that would be more like less than 0.005 mm.