Watching this again and am just blown away by the character this flute has. It really does take your (excellent) playing to the next level and speaks for itself. Amazing.
This is a wonderful flute, and a video I'm going to keep. Those upper notes have a very striking sound, sweet yet piercing, and I immediately thought of the sound of a Ziegler csakan. Would that be because of the cut of the embouchure hole?
the flute does have an excellent embouchure hole but the tone quality is from the union of lots of different thing - the design of the bore, the material of the flute, the player, and other things. My experience with the csakan has been that they are rather soft although I have never played a Ziegler.
I do realise that; but the timbre of your upper register is very similar in volume to that of original and reproduction Ziegler csakans I have heard, played by e.g. Tarasov. Just a thought.
Lovely tone on this gorgeous flute! I for one am partial to these vienese instruments, and would love to hear some day, if possible, a g-footed panaulon. Those I think are particularly incredible instruments! I've listened to the modern Boehms with a g-foot, and I was quite impressed with the result. I wonder what the panaulon would sound like.
the Panaulon were famous for not actually ever working that low. I think I did hear a recording once with a working version but I don't remember what it was.
When I was a beginning composition student, I knew the clarinet (my brother played it), but not the flute. I assumed that the flute had keys similar to this on for playing the low notes -- which made my first attempts at composing less than idiomatic. Now that I play the flute, I think I would find all the alternative keys a bit intimidating.
I think it is very intimidating as well but for flutist of the day, for whom this would have been fairly normal, they must have been well acclimated to using them. The Doppler brothers played a very similar flute.
