Hiya.
I`m Caz. I`m British and I`ve been playing the flute for about 8 years. I`m looking for a really old dead flute that I might be able to spruce up. I also wanted to say, that the flute is not pathetic and all those saying it is have either no life or are trumpeters! If you`ve just started playing or are an accomplished flautist, I`d love to hear from you (i`d be especially interested if you have a banged up flute!!!!) I`m also looking for Yamaha piccolo accessories (key oil and grease to go with the YPC32). They can`t be ordered as they go in at the factory but i`m not giving up with out a fight!

Thanks
Caz x

YAY!!! Another British person!! I completely agree with the trumpeter thing and how flute is great! If you want accesories for a piccolo, they`ll have to be shipped from Japan as Yamaha stock all their stuff over there. That`ll take you 4 weeks. If i didnt help then sorry! lol

Excalibur

Heya Caz!

Yet another brit appears.

I did the whole doing up a banged up old flute thing, I`ve been playing for about 8 years now. It plays pretty well... though I wouldn`t play it as my main instrument. It was a Selmer Gold-seal and in a bit of a sorry state. It needed keys bending bacl into place, dents reducing, all new corks and pads and a damned good clean.
Look around second-hand or swap shops... that`s where I found mine for £30.

As for the Yamaha piccolo accessories... do they have to be Yamaha? I have the YPC32 and I find a watch oil works and just plain cork grease works just as well. It`s certainally cheaper and a lot less hassle to get hold of. You can find watch oil at certain jewellery stores and (quite obviously) places which sell watches.

Hope that`s helped,

Regards,

Penny :D

WAtch oil by the way was reccommended on the `FLUTE` mailing list by several dozen teachers, builders, repairers and performers. So it`s not just me.
...and the cork grease, so long as you wipe off the excess often (as you would do with any brand... even Yamaha) it will do the job and won`t harm your instrument. Mine`s been running happily for 4 years on the stuff with no problems.

Penny

Hiya
Yeah I`ve got some oil and grease already but when I go out playing I usually just take my instruments and seeing as I`ve got holes in my piccolo case for the yamaha grease it seems sensible to get the yamaha grease (nothing else fits, I`ve had to carry my buffet stuff around with me!). The yamaha flute (in the hard case) has no compartments at all!!

Thanks for your advice.
By the way, what`s this american obsession A) with Band and band camp etc???? Why can they just call it a residential music course, lol?
and
B) with open hole flutes, only one of the pros I know has an open hole flute (very nice though!).. But for people in high school!?

Bye
Caz xx

I have a ypc32 and i`m looking to sell.
I got it in the second grade and never really used it. precact shape. justin@soularmusic.net
www.soularmusic.net

Have you ever HEARD the open-hole flute? Even if you suck, you have an opportunity to sound good on it if you try. I`ve been playing for 9 years (I think). I got an open-hole flute after 5 years of playing a lousy student model and my tone improved ten-fold. Then I took a college course in flute performance and improved another hundred-fold. It`s all in how you hear it, I suppose. As for professionals playing open-holed flutes, all of them do it in America