Curiousity...

[evrmre]

I have been playing around with the C# to D fingering changes, and started leaving the first three fingers of the bottom hand on the keys briefly during the change for extra stability. With both ear and electronic pitch tuner, I could find no discernable difference, so have allowed the habit to persist. I play an open holed flute.
Now, during a lesson, my teacher and I were looking at this change, and I showed her this trick. Yet when she played it both ways, my trick sent the note flat for her. She plays a plateau model of flute.
I've recently read that there is no quantifiable difference between an open holed flute and a plateau flute sound wise, yet I'm wondering if it is the case in this instance. So I was wondering if a few people could try this experiment and let me know what they find? This is in the lower octave range form C# (open handed normally) to D above.

Many thanks

[Zevang]

I think the difference between your flute and your teacher's isn't because of one being open and the other closed key. If the ONLY difference where this, maybe we could assume. But even though there are differences between your playing style and your teacher's. Did you try switching flutes and measuring this way?

But in my opinion what could be causing such a difference maybe resides in differences in the scale of your flute and your teacher's.

And even if this is a tiny bit, closing the three RH keys do lower the C#. Does your tunner uses leds or does it have a needle? (The ones with a needle are more responsive to smaller changes in pitch)

[evrmre]

Good point about the tuner, I'll have to borrow a proper sensitive one from work to test with...

I hadn't thought about the scaling of the flutes, but her one is older while mine is pretty current, so might be tuned different. Easy ways to check?

Perhaps this week I'll ask about switching and trying that as well...

Cheers