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The split-E mechanism closes one extra key when you finger the highest E so that it sounds just like all the notes around it. Without split-E the E can be muffled and crack easily, heck I've heard professionals crack high E in concert, it can be quite unforgiving. One workaround is to have a donut i...

Hopefully your neighbors don't mind your practicing for a least an hour daily. You can talk to them to let them know you play flute and if there were any times that they needed silence. Short of using industrial & expensive sound proofing materials you can always put up wall hangings that will help ...

The peg doesn't really go far enough into the flute that you should be worried about that, also the flute being outside a case and vertical you doubly shouldn't worry. (though you shouldn't leave your flute out 24/7 like that or other things will attack your pads)

You are right, I flipped RT1 and RT3. It is interesting that you are experiencing cracking in the mid-range, you should be able to maintain consistent tone through the mid-range of flute regardless of head type. That could be flute related, if there are any leaks you could have stuffy/breaking notes...

Is it a range of notes you are having trouble with or everything? If your problem is isolated to a certain range of the flute, like lower range not speaking which normally does speak for you. You should most definitely try different headjoint cuts. I could not get the FT cut to speak well at the bot...

The cleaning gauze that comes with pearl is unbranded, it looks similar to the Sweetheart Gauze that is sold at fluteworld: http://www.fluteworld.com/Sweetheart-Gauze--CC-SG-.html I highly recommend the BG large cleaning cloth, it's a far superior microfiber cloth that will help to clean the flute q...

If you are located in the Texas area Carolyn Nussbaum is a major flute dealer that does consignments, but other major flute shops would be Flute Center of New York or FluteWorld in Michigan. Consignment fees nowadays are around 20% though. So if you think you can sell it on your own you might try th...

A pearl dolce, if in good adjustment, is probably the best playing flute in the sub $2000 price range. That being said you can find used Japan made flutes such as Yamaha 500 or Miyazawa 102 in a similar price range that would a much much better investment. Pearl and KHS Music:Jupter/Altus have been ...

I don't think lip muscles matter so much as memory. Having put down the flute for a long period of time and coming back to it, there was a lot of memory and a lot of lip muscle burn from trying to use muscles that had not been used for a while. So long as you know what to do to make a good sound you...

There are also the Rubank method books. In the Rubank system there is an outline in the beginning which guides you on units that should be worked on. This will give you an assortment of scale, melodic, and dexterity excercises in each unit. That can be coupled with an etude out of something like Sou...

In your price range the best flutes available would be used Yamaha 500 series or Altus 800 series flutes.

Any of the Taiwan "intermediate" flutes will be better than your Gemeinhardt, but you're not getting that much of a better flute.

I have a Haynes Commercial flute with rust problems... Didn't appear until I owned the flute for a while then all of a sudden the right hand trill keys would bind open and not close due to the rust. My old Gemeinhardt 3SB flute had backing out screws that could fall out if ignored. Needed to get wel...