Name: Experimenting with Tone - FluteTips 176
Uploaded: 2023-07-29T11:00:20+00:00
Duration: 8 min 16 s
Description: Sometimes I have bad tone days! Don’t you? Even when I am in good shape from a steady diet of practice, rehearsals, and performances, I can still have a bad tone day. So, what can we do to pull out of

2 years ago

Sometimes I have bad tone days! Don’t you?

Even when I am in good shape from a steady diet of practice, rehearsals, and performances, I can still have a bad tone day.

So, what can we do to pull out of the doldrums and make it a good tone day?

Here’s how you experiment to fix your tone while you are working on your technique.

Read my Blog on this topic:

Experiment with Your Tone
DoctorFlute.com/experiment-with-your-tone

Experimenting with Tone - FluteTips 176

Here are links to the headjoints and flute demonstrated in this video:

Hernández Flute Headjoints
https://flutecenter.com/collections/shop-all-flute-headjoints?pf_v_brand=Hernandez

William S. Haynes Custom Handmade Silver Flute
All silver tubing, mechanism, tone holes, rings, ribs, and posts; lightweight pinless mechanism, soldered tone holes, French (open hole) model, pointed style key arms, gold springs, .016” standard wall tubing, inline G key, split-E mechanism, C# trill key, D# roller, and B footjoint. Handmade in USA.
https://flutecenter.com/products/william-s-haynes-handmade-flute-in-sterling-silver-soldered-tone-holes

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