Where is the excellent flute timbre from?

The music is of vitality. The flute is animate too. The flute should be our precious tools of singing, the embouchure is our voice. The headjoint is our mikephone. The flute body is our controllable amplifier. All these are composed of flute!

You can imagine a wide flowing river, when the water enters in a culvert, its flowing speed will become more fast naturally, and the current is more concentrated. Here, we call this [ culvert effect ].

The Double hole Headjoint possesses of its heavy bass tone, clean and wide sound, amazing responsiveness features. With the small hole, the air stream beyond the blow hole edge is changed in a particular way when playing. As one plays a headjoint, some air enters the blow hole and some air travels beyond the blow hole; in other words, the air stream is split by the edge of the blow hole. With a standard lip plate, the air that travels beyond the blow hole creates a resistance. This outside resistance inhibits the speed and amount of air that enters the blow hole. The added hole on the lip plate channels some air down the hole past the blow hole and some air continues down the radius of the lip plate as on a standard lip plate. There are now two air streams interacting with each other at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. This interaction reduces the "outside" resistance and allows air to enter the blow hole at a faster rate. This makes the tamber more concentrated and soft. By allowing the air to enter the blow hole at a faster rate, responsiveness is increased, dramatically, especially in the low register and the attack note.

The kind of technical design solves many of the problems associated with piccolo,alto and bass flute headjoints.

Baldwin Lei ( China )

June 24th, 2007

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