Tuneable Irish Flute & Case

Dixon Flute Set – Tuneable Irish Flute – Tony Dixon Irish Flute in D

Comes with soft zip case

This has the same tapered design as the TB014 with the added benefit of the tuneable head, this also lets you tilt the mouthpiece to find the optimum angle for your embouchure.

The tapered bore gives these instruments a very responsive and solid tone, very noticeable particularly on the bottom notes.

The re-voiced whistle head and tapered body will also interchange with the existing range.

The Tony Dixon Tenor/ Low Flute is a two part ABS flute with polymer body and tuneable head.

This flute is in the Key of D. Length: 23.2″ / 59cm We also sell this with a padded zip case. See our other adverts.

Many customers are saying we are underselling the quality of this flute.

It is made by a top maker in Ireland. It’s the real deal and at a great price.

Item has already been imported from Ireland so ships from UK.

We sell other irish musical instruments such as tin whistles and bodhran and other Irish flutes.

Background

The Irish flute is a conical-bore, simple-system wooden flute of the type favoured by classical flautists of the early 19th century, or to a flute of modern manufacture derived from this design.

The Irish flute is a simple system, transverse flute which plays a diatonic (Major) scale as the tone holes are successively uncovered. Most flutes from the Classical era, and some of modern manufacture include metal keys and additional tone holes to achieve partial or complete chromatic tonality. Due to its wooden construction, characteristic embouchure and direct (keyless) fingering, the simple system flute has a distinctly different timbre from the Western concert flute. Most Irish flute players tend to strive for a dark and reedy tone in comparison to classical flautists. Though most commonly pitched in the key of D, simple system flutes are available pitched in other keys, and are often heard in Irish music pitched in E flat, B flat and C. Although referred to as a D flute, this is a non-transposing instrument, so if you finger C, a concert-pitch C is sounded. The name D-flute comes from the fact that the simplest 6-hole wooden flute has D as its lowest note and plays the scale of D without any cross-fingering. The E-flat, B-flat and C versions are transposing instruments.

The flute has six main finger-holes. For a D flute (the most common variety), with X symbolizing a covered finger-hole and O symbolizing an uncovered finger-hole, all holes covered, (three fingers per hand) can be represented as XXX-XXX = D . As the scale progresses, XXX-XXO = E, XXX-XOO = F#, XXX-OOO = G, XXO-OOO = A, XOO-OOO = B, OOO-OOO = C#, with XXX-XXX or OXX-XXX being the higher octave D for the full D major scale.

Wooden flutes have a cylindrical bore in the head and a conical bore in the body. This bore is largest at the head end, tapering down to a smaller bore at the foot. This has the effect of shortening the flute for a given pitch.

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