Demo Anon German 6 key, c.1830-40
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2024
- This is an interesting unmarked German 6-key flute which probably dates from 1830-40. It plays very well and has a great pitch range, including A=435 - 443. It has a couple of interesting features, including unusual key caps of the type used by Boehm on some of his 1832 model flutes. I would thus guess that this flute is from the Munich area. It also has what appears to a replaced embouchure hole, cut in in an unusual and difficult way. I would guess this was done by the original maker as it fits the flute 100%.
0:13 Introduction
6:06 (excerpt) The Magic Flute, by C. Berens
8:43 Adagio from La Péri, Musique de F. Burgmüller, par Ludovic Leplus
10:57 Allegretto - Leplus
13:01 Allegro Moderato - Leplus
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How delightful to listen to, and played with great panache and skill. Having played the modern Boehm flute since 1974, ('77, Watkinson School and Hartt College), and having only approached the Baroque traverso, Viennese, and other period flutes as historical artifacts, I've recently developed an interest in them as unique musical sounding instruments in themselves, and not merely as "pre-Boehm" flutes. These older system flutes are really distinct human musical devices; indeed I sometimes wonder if calling them "flutes" is somewhat misleading because it draws comparison to modern versions, when they are really completely separate. The difference is even more dramatic than say a gamba and cello, or forte and piano, even though there is a technical lineage. Enjoy these instruments as unique in themselves, and listen carefully to the sound which I find evocative in ways the modern concert flute cannot be by design. Regards.
Thanks- one of the great things about old flutes is the sheer number of different models and then variations on those models.
Beautiful flutes. Sounds awesome 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!
How exactly is this flute's embouchure hole unusual and difficult?
usually an inserted embouchure hole is a rectangular piece of wood fit into a hole of the same dimensions. In this case the sides of the insert are all curved, making the process more difficult, one would think. There is a shot of the headjoint where you can see it.
Which of the three C fingerings are you using on the appoggiatura at 06:17?
And also at 08:46 and 08:57?
it looks like the 19thC -2- 456k - I use all three fingerings at various times on this video. They aren't planned ahead of time, it is just a matter of choosing what feels right. I'm happy with it about 95% of the time.
Why did you switch from trilling with your middle finger to trilling with your index finger at 08:21?
that is a standard way of playing that trill - the trill charts almost always give the wide version of the trill which is the second fingering. I think that fingering sounds good, and lively, when fast, but not so good when slow. Thus if you have a long trill, which is going o start slowly, it is usually good to use the 1st fingering to start and then switch as it gets faster.
Forgive my uneducated question: is the lowest note of this flute already C or still D like in baroque traverso? When did the C become common or standard?
Not a bad question at all. This flute, and still many flutes at this time, only goes to D. Some flutes went to C or even B by the 1830s. The more keys the greater the cost and most music could still be played on a D flute.