Christopher Smith / 2006/01/07 / 12:48 PM wrote: >The heavy classical symphony players with the local orchestras here >(including the Montreal Symphony) all claim that the low B joint ruins >a flute's tone and response in high-end flutes. When they have to play >a low B in a concert, they pick up another flute to play it on, then >put it down at the earliest opportunity to pick up their regular >instrument. This might be more a function of available instruments than >something inherently bad about low B joints, but there it is.
You have beaten me to it. I used to hate B-foot for the reason you mentioned, but after switching from classical performance to jazz/ brazilian music, I don't carry C-foot anymore, and when I switch back, I don't feel that bad anymore :-) When I improvise on live show, I am quite amazed how many times I like to hit that low B. On the other hand, I don't know what Bb-foot would do. There is Eb flute, flute in Eb like alto sax, and no one has ever made this flute in-tune. There must be physical limitation somewhere. Flute is so sensitive. There is no moving part to make sound like most of other instruments do. Slightly off-aligned pad could cause intonation problem, and we have to pay big bucks to get it adjusted. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
