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pls don't take ur instruments apart I don't want angry emails from ur band directors flooding my inbox!!! thnx 4 watching 💖

From the perspective of a professional band instrument repair tech.... There are 2 types of technicians in the world. Those who have impaled themselves with a woodwind spring and those that are about to.

I took my flute apart in middle school. It was purchased used and needed a good cleaning. I disassembled it, cleaned it, and was halfway back to putting it back together when my mom found what I was doing. She thought it was my sister's flute because it looked so nice. I told her it was mine, and she pretty much thought I was lying until later. I got it back together and I think it worked better than when I disassembled it.

Me: a beginner flute player Katie: plays a scale Me: wow that sounds awesome Katie: Ya...it's junk. Me: I know right

Flute came with screw driver: Katie: they are just asking me to take it apart!!

You hung up on me?? :,(

Liked for the obligatory "leftover screw" actually happening. :)

Flute Praying Friend: so what brand of flute do you play? Katie: oH, i PlaY eBaY aNd aMazON.

When I saw this notification, I immediately thought: doesn’t one just attach the foot joint and head joint to the body? And is Katie drunk? 😜😜😂😂😂. But seriously, it’s interesting to watch the process!

After that... I would honestly love to see a professional take apart/fix the flute now 😂

I’m a violinist but somehow I ended up on your channel and now I’m binge watching

Katie: I am lost, I did not organize this very well Also Katie: LEts dO tHe FoOTjOiNt nOw! Oh and also Katie at 13:07: 😐🤨

This gives me anxiety lol

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Many thanks from all of us who have been dying to take our own flutes apart but know it would end in disaster. Now I can watch you do it instead. I would also love to watch a 2+ hour follow up in which you hand this flute to a tech and film an in-depth discussion while s/he puts it all back together. As you say, flute techs are amazing. I would love to watch one working their magic.

I saw the title and I was really scared but then I saw the pink flute and I was very relieved.

Should I take apart my grand piano??😂😂😂 definitely I won’t make it to put it back!

Is it bad that I enjoyed watching this flute fall apart

Me- hey wanna watch a scary movie flute!? Flute- AHH mom!!!

I honestly got more interested about fixing flutes than I did playing it. I only brought my intermediate flute into its first COA about 13 years after buying it because I pretty much did all my own maintenance. Got lazy as of recent so I decided to send it into the shop. Ironically now, I just started working on today, restoring a 19th/20th century French flute I bought off eBay. So far, it sucks so much because the brilliant fool cemented the pads into the cups and the pads are all deteriorating into dust. But got a bunch of tools and supplies to get the job done.

I love this! It's a prime example of why players should not dismantle their own flute. Thank you Katie.

I felt the pain when she figured out that the trill goes on first before the right hand keys :(

I did that when I was bored as a kid. I got pretty good at tearing down that old Armstrong and putting it back together again.

You tried playing concerto in g major and I like the “new version” 😂😂 sounds great 👍🏻

As a flute and oboe repair person this pains me 😂 Atleast you didn’t treat a “real” flute like this because that would not have been good.

Video idea: a visit to the repair tech for a few tips and tricks on quick/temporary fixes? That flute was a doozy of a demo instrument and would be a great conversation piece with the technician as well!

Well, that went about as well as the time I decided to replace the corks on a clarinet that was found abandoned in a classroom and the corks only went about 3/4 around the tenons (back in my early band director days). I've learned to make many repairs on many instruments through the years, and honestly, this is the best way to learn. You just needed a big piece of paper (butcher paper or even the backside of wrapping paper works) to cover your table surface and a pencil to diagram and label parts as you take them off and lay them out in a logical and orderly fashion. Don't be afraid to try it again sometime! (And you might even figure out where that last screw goes!)

Luv u Katie ❤️ my fav youtuber

As soon as you started reconstructing the pieces there was 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 regret😂

My daughter and I watched this together yesterday. We are both flutists. We laughed so hard but I have to say it did give me a bit of anxiety lol.

I repair locks for a living and we have some that are literal puzzles, and how they go together depends entirely on brand and what era it was made in. The practice that was always instilled in me was to take pictures of the whole thing before taking it apart from every angle possible, and if I was going to have to take something apart with a lot of pieces that look similar, as soon as a piece came out, it was bagged and labeled with where it came from. It makes rebuilding something far easier to manage.

I am excited to watch this!!!!🤗🤗🤗❤️

My father described a performance in Philadelphia in the 1950's where the guest flutist took his flute apart after his first part of the symphony or whatever and had it back together before his next bit began. No idea who the flutist was but an an engineer, father was impressed.

Chunks falling off everywhere. Mozart in the background 😆

THAT TUNE IS MY FAVE MOZART FLUTE CONCERTO NO.1

Katie you’re the best!

You are so me! I took my flute apart at 15, miraculously it still played! Tried it again on a thrift store $20 one, not so much. It was fun watching someone else work that puzzle!

Thank you for my first laugh of the day!!! I really enjoyed your video and will never never attempt to repair my flute or piccolo. Thanks Katie.

Love to you and music, you are wonderful, cheers! 🎉

yo can we do an eBay piccolo deconstruction video? lol

So many parts and a lot of work! I feel your pain!

i just got into honours band!!! so excited & love all of the inspiration from a wonderful flutist like her 💕

I love your channel Katie!!

I've tried the same thing back a long time ago. Fixed the keys myself...big mistake. The next day the flute was at the shop ! When you Don't know what you are doing better sent it to an expert. I'm sorry for you but it makes me feel good to see that i'm not the only one who went through things like you did in this video ..lol..Cheers from Montréal Québec !

When you try to be “Jerryrigeverything”...

13:33 Mozart G major flute concerto, first movement.

Love this video!!

I used to do that too, when I played. Just like owning a gun. I even learnt how to activate the springs -- I wore braces then, balance key pads and cut corks from wine bottle corks in between overhauls at Colvig's. Got it down to just under 3 minutes. It helps to organize the screws, rods and axles on a clean surface and fix the screws to sticky back paper.

Turquoise fingernail polish was a bold choice, but not nearly as bold as disassembling a working instrument. Girl, you totally ROCK!

Few tips if you're adventurous enough to do it again: Organise the parts into small numbered boxes. Use your taking apart footage and another flute for reference to put it back together. If you think about it, you need to do the taking apart actions, just in reverse.

I love how shes an amazing player but doesnt take herself so seriously! I always recommend this video to my students 😂😂😂😂😂 hilarious and so relatable

Wow taking it a part that is my girl cutest in the web and beautifull tooooo

I learned to take photos of things before taking apart! After moving my mom’s China closet and trying to reassemble her China I learned to photograph., photograph, photograph! Never took my flute or piccolo apart. I just took them to a professional to replace pads or sticky notes

People say flute players are snakes but you seem really nice.

I had to laugh so hard about that result😂 I think you forgot to drive in the screws for the mechanism to seal correctly😂

Aw my gosh it’s such a stunning creation of absolute detail ! I want one so bad ...

bahahah when you started playing it after i died 🤣🤣🤣

11:27 “How do they make it look so easy” XD

I'm buying a pink flute and doing this over Christmas break. lol

Well I certainly enjoyed that. I'm very impressed, much less swearing than if I was doing that.

Thanks for the hard work and the great video. Very interesting and I am reminded why I shy away from any repair work (the good thing is that the local flute doctor is the father of my sister's friend, so I don't need to take anything apart myself and can get my flute fixed in no time).

I got scared for my current flute (my Altus) earlier today because I had my dress rehearsal for my wind ensemble concert and I wasn’t able to play low f, middle f and middle f# and my friend who’s the flute ta told me that it was because the screw of the split e had gotten out of adjustment due to the weather changes and I had a spring that went out of place.That’s awesome that you know how to take apart a flute, I know basic repair things ( like putting a spring back in place and tightening/loosening screws)😊❤️

9:40 was an entire mood🤣

All I can hear is my beautiful masterpiece of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

This is sooo freaking funny lmao! i don't play flute, i play clarinet been playing for over 9 years! (22 btw) And i was just about to take my clarinet apart until i watched your video and i was like " nope never mind! I'm good luv enjoy"! HAHA

Well done Katie. That was impressive, I used to take apart ps3's, a games console, and give them a clean and on the odd occasion give a fan mod to cool the heat sinks and I used to always miss things and put the wrong things in the wrong order, having to take it back apart to put a curcuit board layer or something bk in, that wouldn't fit on top of the next piece. it took me hours sometimes, talk about overwhelming like a 3d jigsaw with 4d mechanisms, even putting the screws bk in for the outercase took the michael, their been like 8 outer and 20 inner small screws, right pain in the brain. Your face was a picture when you remembered you missed the big rod that goes through the bottom middle. Been there...lol. I'll not take mine apart, tho it must need fixing, because I can only get a few notes, even your remixfix got more notes out, I must be holding it wrong, I only used a recorder when I was like 6 or 7 and just copied pattern instead of reading notes because it seemed easier for my brain to figure out in the time space the teacher gave to understand her explanation of how notes reeed.(phonetically). Anyway might have to start working out with my arms because even 15 mins of holding my arms at the side of my face or head, I felt like I should devise some sort of arm rest so my arms weren't so knackered. When I next get £400 spare I'll get a New York flute if they deliver to UK, and see if it's the £40 flutes fault I'm blowing 2 notes, my post code ends in 9ny. So be nice to hold something made in ny. They might give you a free clean of your dear/expensive flute, for getting custom from uk. Unless that's already the gig. Sorry for nattering, quality video, loved it. At the end of the vid I'd of just chucked it, on camera. Saying i knew I shouldn't of done that...lol. I'd offer to buy you a meal for the time you've entertained and put a tone of delight in my days, if I lived within hugging distance. Hope you have a wonderful October.

Omg you used my idea!!!!!! I can die happy now oml thank you Flute QUeen

i think this is my favorite video

I subscribed after watching this because I've dreamed of doing this to one of my flutes for 40 years 🤣

LOVE THIS!

You made my day!!! LMAO!!!

Mozart will never sound the same again!! 😂😂😂

Ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣 I laughed so hard with this video 😂😂😂

I’m reviewing my flute and found visible screws and now I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe

I love this video. Luckily i know how to put mine back together hahaha

Love your channel 💕💕

I like this. You have an adventurous mind. Great! I am an engineer for real, and learning the flute. Oh, I am an electronic engineer, but I would still do it. You did it! Dan Berendt.

I just subscribed 😅 this was a fun watch. Never considered taking my flute apart before, and now I won’t. 👍

The pink eBay flute may not be very good as well, but it’s so pretty what the heck 😭

Hahah Mozart G Major. The concerto from my own personal hell haha

This is so saCRiLegiOuS...

We have the same brand of flute! I have a light pink one!

I decided to by a $30 one off ebay to practice taking apart before doing my own.. I haven't played in 20 years and wanted to get the tarnish off it.. after watching this I'm glad I'll be doing it on a cheap ebay one lol... love the pink flute tho

That flute is now what is affectionately known as a "wall hanger".

Because of your video I looked up how they repair a flute... It is super complicated. You were really uh, optimistic in your attempt. lol

PS please have me on as a guest so I can show the right order of things for proper disassembly

It is nice color I think that you can use it to decorate

I play the clarinet and I have a friend that's plays the flute though I love watching your videos!!!!

hey katie after watching u now for 2 years. you inspired me to practice a new instrament and would love to get recomendations from you on good beginner lv flutes i could possibly find at my local music shop.

I've actually done this a few times. Re padded a flute once. Took me all day, but I got all the keys to seal. My old Gemeindhart is currently half apart. Has bent keys and a bent spring. Taken it apart twice and still haven't bent it back quite right.

Me seeing katie forcefully trying to take apart of the flute while my flute just fell apart as I was playing the flute 😭😭

I was tempted to try and repair my keys but now I definitely won’t. Haha.

I know many repair techs who specifically say they won’t accept flutes brought to them in plastic bags.

In grade 9, I took apart my Gemeinhardt “cleaned” it (don’t flame me but I think silver polish was involved), but put it back together and used it till I got my Mateki in first year university music. But, I agree that it should be left to the experts! 😂

If I were to do this, I would take snapshots of what it looked like for every key I took off and then put the screws and keys and springs, etc. together in a pile. 😋 I would ToTaLlY take apart my flute once I get my b flute. BUT I’m gonna wait until I’m out of music school to do it bc you never know if your instrument breaks. Then you’ll have a spare😋

Moral of the video don’t take apart your flute unless you’re professional and if somethings wrong with it give it to a professional to fix

Me: someday when I get a better flute, I will disassemble the cheap one. Me after this video: someday when I get a better flute, I will disassemble the cheap one.

I use this flute to teach, so i don't harm any good flutes. I might do this to this!!!

You should do the same thing but have a flute tech on site to help you hahaha.

When I was in college, my teacher was also an instrument repairman. Try taking a Bbb Contrabass Clarinet apart and putting it back together! It took 3 days (8+ hours) every day to take it apart, re-pad, new corks and putting it back together. Some of the parts were longer than a piccolo! When he tried to drag me into repairing an Eb Baritone Saxophone, I told him that I had a stomach virus to get out it!