On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:20 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 4:22 PM -0500 1/6/06, dhbailey wrote:
Andrew Stiller wrote:
Not to mention the fact that some flutes actually *can* play a low
Bb.
I wasn't aware of that -- I've only encountered flutes which play to
low B. Cool!
I'm not sure you could buy one today, unless it's completely
custom-made. But I understand that they were available in Vienna at
the turn of the 20th century, and the Strauss (among others) wrote for
them.
I was unable to find new ones online just now, but for some reason the
mfrs. seem to be keeping their catalogs very close to the chest, so
that's not definitive. When I was researching my book, abt. 25 years
ago, one of the Buffalo Philharmonic players had a flute w. a Bb
footjoint; it was not very old, and he told me that they were readily
available then.
It wouldn't surprise me to find that, now that low B natural has become
standard for professionals (it wasn't, back then), that the low B flat
has become rarer, or vanished altogether from new models.
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