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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows what happened historically that lead to traditional Europe's flutemakers fall and the corresponding rise of American and Japanese designers and firms. I looked at the good site regarding flute history but I didn't found sufficient info on that. My understandin...

I have only good words for Mateki's. Japanese as said with quite good presense in Europe too. Good value for money, good manufacturing quality. They have a distictive headjoint design as far as I understand that gives a "weird" feeling at the first touch (at least to me). If you get over the first i...

Fluteguy trios are an alternative but they do not really work for us. Fluttiegurl thanks for the proposals. I haven't noticed the music in fluteworld. Can someone explain in general terms the playing equivalent of the Grades (2,3,3+,4, etc.) because I am not familiar with that? Here are some tips fr...

Hi all, I've done some reading in the board for a while but this is my first post. I am part of an all-flute ensemble comprisin of 6 flutes (alternatively we can include pic and alto). Currently we are looking to expand our repertoire with new works that are originally written for more than 4 flutes...