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Toucan flutes
This series comprises the double-barrelled drone, double-drone and double-key flutes, usually made of specially imported yellow cedar inlaid with black walnut mouth and end caps, and decorated with hand-burned designs, painting or inlay. Hardwood flutes in this series tend to be made in the lighter weight woods such as sycamore or maple although higher keyed drones and doubles are also available in oak. Other woods are available to custom order. The bores on all the flutes are totally independent of each other, and can be played singly or together. The sounds produced are both haunting and mystical.
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These flutes usually have tuning holes located on the underside of the barrels, and often have inlayed hardwood fipple edges. Incorporating these features in the designs gives extra scope for refining the sounds the flutes produce. For the drones, emphasis is placed on exactly matching the fundamental and octave tuning so that there is no 'beating' when both bores are played together. For the double key flutes particular attention is paid to the relative playing hole placements, to give a flute that has complementary sounds from each bore and is well-balanced, easy and comfortable to play.
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Eastern red cedar drone in Gm with cherry mouth endcap and single block chimneyed bird; a very popular flute, with outstanding figuring in the wood and a very rich, traditional cedar sound.
These drones have specially made voice boxes, with the drone side playing a little quieter than the fingered (melody) side.
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The drone flutes are available in keys from E to A. There are also double drones, which have a normally tuned pentatonic right bore plus one playing hole on the drone bore for the complementary higher note(eg E fundamental would have an A drone hole). The extra drone hole can be placed to fit under the little finger of the upper playing hand, or under the thumb of the lower playing hand (the former usually gives the easier playing style). Double flutes comprise a long and a short bore in the same body, and are available in complementary keys (eg D and A, E amd B, F and C) as requested. |
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Please feel free to call or email if you would like any more details on the above flute range. And remember, this range can be customised to your own requirements. Prices for Toucan flutes start from £195 (inc. cloth case) plus shipping.
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The Owlhouse • Milford • Surrey • UK • dc@secondvoiceflutes.co.uk
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