I have to design an instrument for my technology class and I choose a flute so if you could answer these questions I would be greatful.

1. What is your fave flute brand?

2. What flute do you own? (make and model)

3. What material so you think is best? (gold, silver, wood, rose silver, rose gold etc)

4. Extra keys you find useful? (C# trill, GA trill etc)

5. Open or closed hole?

Thank you

p.s. if you don`t mind could you give reasons for your answers?

1. What is your fave flute brand?

POWELL

WHY? Because it has a sound like no other flute that I have ever played on. It has low, medium and high tones all put together, so it has a huge full sound.

2. What flute do you own? (make and model)

SILVER,POWELL HANDMADE

3. What material so you think is best? (gold, silver, wood, rose silver, rose gold etc)

I don`t think one is better than the other. I prefer silver, though. I don`t care for the sound of gold at all. Silver seems more brighter and cheerier to me.



4. Extra keys you find useful? (C# trill, GA trill etc)

C#, definetely! I use mine all the time and I love it.


5. Open or closed hole?

Both. I like open hole when I am playing Irist music and I like to bend some of my notes some.
I prefer close hole when I just want to relax. All in all though, close hole is more comfortable for me.

1. What is your fave flute brand?

I don’t really have one. I think it best to judge each individual flute on its own merits rather than its brand name.


2. What flute do you own? (make and model)

Pearl Quantz 765RB. I chose this flute because of the ones I was able to try in my price range this one sounded the best.

3. What material so you think is best? (gold, silver, wood, rose silver, rose gold etc)

I don’t think there is any best material. It depends on your particular tastes. I like my silver flute. I understand that flutes made from silver or gold, as opposed to plated, are easier to repair if necessary. I don’t know if that is true, but if so then that would be at least one objective reason to go with solid silver or gold over plated.


4. Extra keys you find useful? (C# trill, GA trill etc)

Other than a B foot I use no extra keys. I prefer to keep things simple.

5. Open or closed hole?

Open, because I like to play jazz and contemporary music, and there are certain effects for these types of music that you need open holes for. I also like the feel of them.

1. What is your fave flute brand?
No Fav.

2. What flute do you own? (make and model)
Gemeinhardt 3SB, Armstrong 104, and Buffet-Crampon something or other.

3. What material so you think is best? (gold, silver, wood, rose silver, rose gold etc)
I have never liked any Gold flutes I have heard everything else is fine.

4. Extra keys you find useful? (C# trill, GA trill etc)
Reversed Bb thumb key!

5. Open or closed hole?
I prefer open holes, but there are some closed hole designs that are VERY comfy.

1. What is your fave flute brand?

I don`t necessarily have a favorite brand. I haven`t tryed out flutes in awhile. Brand is not necessarily important. It would be best to do a blind test when trying out flutes so you wont have any judgements towards any of the brands.

2. What flute do you own? (make and model)

Jupiter 611 body with Sankyo RS1 headjoint.

3. What material so you think is best? (gold, silver, wood, rose silver, rose gold etc)

Silver..because I don`t find the need to spend $20-30,000 on a gold flute when it will not make that much of a difference in the tone, if any at all.

4. Extra keys you find useful? (C# trill, GA trill etc)

C# trill key is very useful.

5. Open or closed hole?

I prefer open but it`s a matter of what the player finds comfortable.

1. What is your fave flute brand?

Pearl or Miyazawa.

2. What flute do you own? (make and model)

Pearl 501RBE with a Quantz Coda Model Headjoint upgrade.

3. What material so you think is best? (gold, silver, wood, rose silver, rose gold etc)

I believe that has to be personal preference. Mine is Silver though.

4. Extra keys you find useful? (C# trill, GA trill etc)

Split E, helps me with the third octave E abunch!


5. Open or closed hole?

It depends on how I feel that day!

1. My favorite Flute brand is Yamaha, and Jupiter.
1a. I like Yamaha because it is afforable and plays well as well same with the Jupiter.
2.I own right now a Jupiter; model # 7000s.
2a. Great sound in all register.
3. I love Pure Sterling sivler.
3a. Nice sound, great apperance, not soft like silver, cheaper than the gold wich you don`t need really.
4. The C# Trill key and the D# rollers and very useful.
4a. Make trilling to all those hard notes which takes practice to get used to.
5. I perfer open-hole.
5a. Open-hole is better to me because you just don`t get a good sound on a closed-hole flute, and plus I like to feel my air threw my finfers.

because I need to know what peoples prefrences are basically we have to ask as many people as possible but everyone i know doesnt know anything about flutes lol

because I need to know what peoples prefrences are basically we have to ask as many people as possible but everyone i know doesnt know anything about flutes lol

Sorry. There seems to have been some miscommunication.

You wrote, "I have to design an instrument for my technology class and I choose a flute"

When a person `designs` something, then to me (and probably any other person who has studied some aspect of design) it implies that the `something` will be different from what is already available. Yet your questionaire pretains to what is already available.

So I really have no idea now what your project is really about.

1. What is your fave flute brand?

Powell

2. What flute do you own? (make and model)

Aprenti: Sterling Silver Headjoint with Silver Plated Body, Foot, and Keys.

3. What material so you think is best? (gold, silver, wood, rose silver, rose gold etc)

I have tried out wood, silver, and gold flutes. I personally didn`t like the sound of wood and I did not hear much of a difference between gold and silver flutes. So in the end I would choose Silver, cause its cheaper than Gold.

4. Extra keys you find useful? (C# trill, GA trill etc)

I don`t have any extra keys, so I couldn`t answer the question.

5. Open or closed hole?

Open holes because my tone sounds more full.

Arak, the `design` part is the only thing I haven`t decided on lol maybe i`ll think of some different trill keys etc. The survey is to find out what people like, that is available at the moment so to know if I should include it in my final project or not

If you ar anyone could think of anything that you would like on a flute let me know i`m stuck on this part lol

To reduce the price of construction, and the weight, and increase the robustness, I would like the keys, at least, to be cast from "liquid metal".
http://www.liquidmetal.com/

I would like to see regulating screws on ALL flutes.
I would like to see an end to open holes for all flutes except for the players who need these holes for special effects or professional-standard playing. They are just too much of a pain during servicing, and serve little or no purpose for perhaps 95% of people who play flute.

If you are such a great repair tech, then you should not have a problem repairing flutes without adjustment screws. There is obviously a reason that handmade flutes don`t have them or else they wouldn`t be still making them that way.

"If you are such a great repair tech, then you should not have a problem repairing flutes without adjustment screws..."

I do not have a `problem`. I said it was a `pain`. As I have detailed before, having no adjusting screws means that certain adjustments just take a few hundred times longer, which is an absolutely pointless `pain`. OF course the customer pays, and because they pay a lot, they believe their flute is very special. Crazy!

"...There is obviously a reason that handmade flutes don`t have them or else they wouldn`t`t be still making them that way."

I think you could do some research here and and find the REAL reasons why. I could tell you, but you would probably not even read it, least of all seriously consider it it, simply because it came from me. So do your own research.

The reasons are no longer anything to do with how well or reliably the flute plays, even though this may have been the case 70 years ago.