Introducing Beethoven's Flute 

Agreed. Without a doubt, this is one of the finest videos I've ever seen on RU-vid

People like this got me through 2020

Fr bro

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Retained the key system, change back to wood and conical bore

Several manufacturers make modern wooden flutes. Yamaha make some lovely wooden flutes but sadly I cannot afford the £12,000 they cost.

@@joshuarosen6242 They also have a nice tuning slide on them.

My 1966 Haynes doesn't sound harsh.

And even a comparison with a recorder

Hahahaha!

It does not work like that.

@@agnidas5816 It in fact does, but not directly. the less keys you have, the more cross fingerings and stuff like that you have to use to achieve a chromatic scale. And using those alternate/cross fingerings leads to having a fair amount of notes that simply will not be as in tune as the more modern instruments that have keys specifically made for those notes. Now, I'm not a woodwind player, so I don't know if a good flutist can adjust embouchure to try and pitch those notes back in tune like you can do with brass instruments, but the cross fingerings as a result of having less keys will absolutely lead to a more pitchy instrument overall.

Patrick Reilly As a flute player: You can adjust the pitch of a note by using embouchure, but it is extremely hard to adjust to a pitch using cross fingerings accurately, especially if you don’t possess relative or perfect pitch. The keys make notes more in tune along with enriching the sound quality of the flute.

It's the camera. The nearer an object gets to the Lens, the larger it becomes.

I wasnt even familiar with metal flutes until I learned how to play at school. I was honestly expecting it to be a wood flute lmao but it was still nice to play metal

@@spongebob-wd9zg I have a standard Böhm system metal flute and a boxwood Baroque single-keyed flute. The modern flute is much easier to play. I prefer the tone of my boxwood flute but I've never been sure whether that's not just because I particularly love Baroque music. I suppose I cannot imagine playing Debussy on my Baroque flute.

I do like the colourful sound of the wooden flute over the metal ones but volume is a problem

So metal!

@@joshuarosen6242 ive heard syrinx on the baroque flute

Oh - and she reminds me of young Margret Rutherford ;-))

Thats the flute's excerpt in 'The Magic Flute' by Mozart. It happens in the finale of act I

2:10 ... i found it... is there a mini spring or no ??

From Lisa: Yes the one I play most of the Beethoven on is a copy of a Grenser by Martin Wenner