Ugly Boy Flutes Page 2.

Made with Xara NEWS AND UPDATES: 2-21-12 The shot on the homepage is of “The Sinks”, off of Hgy. 441 on the Tennessee side of the Great Smokies. On Saturday February 18, I made the 2-hour trek over the Smokies to Townsend, TN for the Smokey Mtn. Flute Circle gathering, and stopped to take this pic en route. Last time I made this trek it was almost the peak of leaf- peeping season in October, and the traffic/crowds were on the overwhelming side. This past Saturday it was the exact opposite, at least on my way over early in the morning. Minimal traffic. User-friendly weather. Up at Newfound Gap on the TN/NC line, it was amazing how little snow there was. A gentle winter this one has been. Getting ready to leave town until the first of March, so heads up for anyone looking to get an Ugly Boy quickly. I still fill in on an independent contractor basis for my former station, doing weather for either Charlotte or the Triad. Work there is picking up, now, and while it slows down my flute production I am thankful for the cash flow. You can still ask for flutes, get dibs, etc., but I’ll be unable to mail anything out until March 1, just FYI. This picture has nothing to do with flutes... nothing new to post in the past week, but in cleaning up some old hard drives, I ran across this pic that I really, really like...need to enlarge and frame it. These are magnolia blossoms floated in a fountain at a wedding years ago. Click the pic to enlarge and enjoy! If you are interested in adopting a flute or need more info, then all you have to do is shoot me an email...I don’t use ‘buy it now’ buttons from PayPal because of numerous conflicts on this process of ‘adopting’ flutes. If you are really interested in a particular flute, let me know and you’ll have ‘dibs’ for a day or two while you decide one way or the other. It’s that simple. Keep in mind my response will come from Yahoo.com, which some email programs sift out as spam. If you have not heard from me in a timely manner, write me and nicely kick my butt! .

Keys: F4? D5? B3? Simple, really...read on Most people can identify ‘middle C’ on a piano...and most people know what an octave is. Though a full piano keyboard doesn’t start on a C, it has become accepted practice to use C as a starting point, C to B being that particular octave. Go one note up to C and that C starts the next octave. Basically, the number after the key-letter is simply the octave range for the flute...”4” is an octave lower than “5”, and one octave higher than “3”. I build flutes from D3 (42” long!) up through C6, so it greatly helps me corral my wide range of keys; too, it gets confusing when words like bass, low, high, etc. are used. Take A4, for example....some call that ‘high A’, but some of us build A5 flutes, and that’s ‘high’....or is it ‘ultra-high’? The number pegs the flute perfectly. The most common woodlands flute key is the G or F#, which is the G4 or F#4 octave. A few more sample references are on the graphic above. Any questions? Shoot me an email. :-)

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