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 Contact details
As of June 2018, I am now making flutes again after a health-enforced layoff of two years. However, for the time being I am not taking custom orders; instead, I am making flutes in my own time and offering them for sale on the Available Flutes page. I think you will find a good range of starter and specialist flutes there, but obviously the stock will vary from day to day. In the meantime, I am still available to answer queries, discuss future flutes (including possible orders and requests) and generally help anyone considering buying a flute. So for now, the Ordering details paragraph below is slightly redundant, but I am leaving it here because it does give you an idea of things that need considering when purchasing an NA flute...all of which I will gladly talk over with you should you feel it would be helpful. Ultimately, I should be back to making fully customized flutes before long.
Second Voice Flutes is based in Surrey, England. Please feel free to make contact:
Email: dc@secondvoiceflutes.co.uk
Ordering details
I make all flutes to commission simply because I like to build a flute specifically for the individual, particularly getting the playing hole spacing optimised.
One thing I do ask all those ordering a flute to do is send me ‘hand graphs’. To do this either take two pieces of A4 paper (one for each hand) and with your fingers spread comfortably (NOT stretched out to their limit) draw around your whole hand and the individual fingers. Alternatively, if you have access to a scanner or photocopier, then you can email me a scan or send me a photocopy of your hands, opened as described above, palms down, or you can scan your hands and email them to me; either of these options is actually better for me because I can then not only do the maths on your hands and work out the optimum placement for the playing holes on your flute, but it also allows me to see the size of your finger pads, which influences hole diameter. The other pieces of information I need are your height (this helps me determine how long the flute should be such that your elbows are held in the comfiest position when playing) and whether you are right or left-handed (I often offset the position of the bottom hole for ease of playing; for most the right hand is the bottom playing hand, but if you are strongly left-handed you might feel comfier with this as bottom hand).
If you're a beginner and don't have any idea what you would like...no problem, just contact me and we can discuss what would be best for you. If you're already a player and know exactly what wood, key, block, accents, hole spacing etc. you want, that's fine...let’s get down to business!
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