Not necessarily a sad thing. I doable, it would have at least $2,000. Flutes are expensive!!!
Best,
--Louis
Louis Bertrand
louis@...
-------- Original Message -------- On 8/28/24 12:09 AM, Amanda Shevitski wrote: Wow. I'm sad to hear about your antique Flute. One of my concert flutes is 23 years old, and has been dropped and repaired so many times, I can't even begin to count. The part of the body joint where the foot fits on on my 20 theory year-old Jupiter Flute is bent. it still plays, and that's a good thing, but I prefer my MIO Flute. That's my good one. The other one I keep around as a spare. It's always good to have more than one instrument in your possession, especially if One needs to go in for repair.?
Amanda On Aug 27, 2024, at 6:15?PM, Louis Bertrand via groups.io <louis@...> wrote:
?Hi everyone,
I have to show off this beautiful antique flute.
https://bertrandtech.ca/HawkesFlute/
Hawkes & Sons, London
Made before 1930. That's when Hawkes merged with Boosey.
It's in excellent shape, without cracks, and the mechanism is modern and in almost perfect working order. Sadly, it cannot be restored. It's tuned a half tone sharp and unlike silver flutes, ?wooden flutes cannot be retuned.
It will live out its life as an interesting museum piece.
All the best,
--Louis
Louis Bertrand
louis@...
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I'm sure if you just wait long enough, Louis, our perpetually rising A will eventually catch up with your antique. ;)
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Wow. I'm sad to hear about your antique Flute. One of my concert flutes is 23 years old, and has been dropped and repaired so many times, I can't even begin to count. The part of the body joint where the foot fits on on my 20 theory year-old Jupiter Flute is bent. it still plays, and that's a good thing, but I prefer my MIO Flute. That's my good one. The other one I keep around as a spare. It's always good to have more than one instrument in your possession, especially if One needs to go in for repair.? Amanda
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On Aug 27, 2024, at 6:15?PM, Louis Bertrand via groups.io <louis@...> wrote:
?Hi everyone,
I have to show off this beautiful antique flute.
https://bertrandtech.ca/HawkesFlute/
Hawkes & Sons, London
Made before 1930. That's when Hawkes merged with Boosey.
It's in excellent shape, without cracks, and the mechanism is modern and in almost perfect working order. Sadly, it cannot be restored. It's tuned a half tone sharp and unlike silver flutes, ?wooden flutes cannot be retuned.
It will live out its life as an interesting museum piece.
All the best,
--Louis
Louis Bertrand
louis@...
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Re: Checking in on all my fellow flute players. How are you? I've got some good news
Yes. I did take the time off to practice. I've also been doing some other things, such as live streaming on YouTube, and I even demonstrated both of my flutes. I am sorry to hear that your antique Flute will not be restored. Or cannot be restored. I did write a little bit in some stories that I am working on with a friend, but otherwise, I just took it easy. I did play a little bit of flute on Sunday. I don't have any recordings from Sunday to show you though. Sorry about that. Amanda
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On Aug 27, 2024, at 6:05?PM, Louis Bertrand via groups.io <louis@...> wrote:
? Hi Amanda,Hi everyone,Wow, it's quiet around here. Is everyone on vacation?Sorry to hear about your forced time off. It's good that your employer kept the paycheques coming. Hey, did you use the time to practice? (Wink!)Me, I'm going to stay away from the flute for a few months because of shoulder surgery to repair the damage from a fall. I can't keep my right arm up to play. It's going to drive me nuts. All the best, --LouisLouis Bertrandlouis@...-------- Original Message --------On 8/24/24 8:51 AM, Amanda Shevitski <amanda.shevitski@...> wrote: Just checking in with all my fellow flute players. Things are going well. For about three weeks, my workplace was closed because of a fire. The good news is, we are back in operation, and I start back work tonight. Thank goodness. I was going stir crazy getting no jobs done. Luckily though, I got paid time off which is good.
Amanda
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Hi everyone,
I have to show off this beautiful antique flute.
Hawkes & Sons, London
Made before 1930. That's when Hawkes merged with Boosey.
It's in excellent shape, without cracks, and the mechanism is modern and in almost perfect working order. Sadly, it cannot be restored. It's tuned a half tone sharp and unlike silver flutes, wooden flutes cannot be retuned.
It will live out its life as an interesting museum piece.
All the best,
--Louis
Louis Bertrand
louis@...
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Re: Checking in on all my fellow flute players. How are you? I've got some good news
Hi Amanda,
Hi everyone,
Wow, it's quiet around here. Is everyone on vacation?
Sorry to hear about your forced time off. It's good that your employer kept the paycheques coming. Hey, did you use the time to practice? (Wink!)
Me, I'm going to stay away from the flute for a few months because of shoulder surgery to repair the damage from a fall. I can't keep my right arm up to play. It's going to drive me nuts.
All the best,
--Louis
Louis Bertrand
louis@...
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-------- Original Message -------- On 8/24/24 8:51 AM, Amanda Shevitski <amanda.shevitski@...> wrote: Just checking in with all my fellow flute players. Things are going well. For about three weeks, my workplace was closed because of a fire. The good news is, we are back in operation, and I start back work tonight. Thank goodness. I was going stir crazy getting no jobs done. Luckily though, I got paid time off which is good.
Amanda
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Checking in on all my fellow flute players. How are you? I've got some good news
Just checking in with all my fellow flute players. Things are going well. For about three weeks, my workplace was closed because of a fire. The good news is, we are back in operation, and I start back work tonight. Thank goodness. I was going stir crazy getting no jobs done. Luckily though, I got paid time off which is good.
Amanda
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Hi Leonard. How are you? It's Amanda. My apologies that I was not able to listen to your new opus. I've been working on some Flute things myself. Star Wars, Star Trek, and some Gordon Lightfoot. I've been playing this instrument since I was in high school. 23 years I've been playing to be exact. Amanda
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On Jun 26, 2024, at 5:18?PM, Jamie-Anita via groups.io <jamieanita21@...> wrote:
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On Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 04:12:51 PM CDT, Leonard E. Lopatin <llopatin1@...> wrote:
Dear friends and fellow Flutenetters,
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I have released my latest book.? It's called?An Entire Day of a Faun.? If you've ever wanted to practice all the significant flute passages in Debussy's?Afternoon of a Faun?in every key, all the way up to D7, and all the way down to B3, I've put them all together for you!
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I feel that there is much to gain in control of tone color, etc. by practicing this music this way.? If that isn't too entirely mad an idea for you, I hope you will check out?An Entire Day of a Faun?on sheetmusicdirect.com:??
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My best wishes to all,
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Lenny (Leonard E. Lopatin)
Lopatin Flute Company
West Virginia, USA
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On Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 04:12:51 PM CDT, Leonard E. Lopatin <llopatin1@...> wrote:
Dear friends and fellow Flutenetters,
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I have released my latest book.? It's called?An Entire Day of a Faun.? If you've ever wanted to practice all the significant flute passages in Debussy's?Afternoon of a Faun?in every key, all the way up to D7, and all the way down to B3, I've put them all together for you!
?
I feel that there is much to gain in control of tone color, etc. by practicing this music this way.? If that isn't too entirely mad an idea for you, I hope you will check out?An Entire Day of a Faun?on sheetmusicdirect.com:??
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My best wishes to all,
?
Lenny (Leonard E. Lopatin)
Lopatin Flute Company
West Virginia, USA
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Dear friends and fellow Flutenetters,
?
I have released my latest book.? It's called?An Entire Day of a Faun.? If you've ever wanted to practice all the significant flute passages in Debussy's?Afternoon of a Faun?in every key, all the way up to D7, and all the way down to B3, I've put them all together for you!
?
I feel that there is much to gain in control of tone color, etc. by practicing this music this way.? If that isn't too entirely mad an idea for you, I hope you will check out?An Entire Day of a Faun?on sheetmusicdirect.com:??
?
My best wishes to all,
?
Lenny (Leonard E. Lopatin)
Lopatin Flute Company
West Virginia, USA
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? ? Hi Mitch. Good to hear from you. I'm also still practicing Flute. It's good that you're practicing law as well. That is so awesome. I'm still also playing the recorder. On May 26, a friend of mine and I did a neat little trio of pieces at the beginning of church service. It went really well. I have never seen a saxophone. Up close. Also, there is a gentleman who was an excellent saxophone player. His name was David fathead Newman. He mostly did jazz saxophone, but sometimes he did the flute. He got the fat head part of his name, because of a music teacher. The music teacher called him a fat head because the music for the bassoon was resting upside down on the music stand, and he was playing from memory. For David Newman to take that epithet and roll with it shows good musicianship. Amanda
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On Jun 6, 2024, at 2:23?PM, bistock22 via groups.io <upphetsade@...> wrote:
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Thanks for checking in, Amanda. I had a pleasant suprise Wednesday evening while attending a Jazz jam session, in which I played both sax and flute. The regular guitarist and drummer were absent, and their substitutes were the piano player and drummer with whom I recorded two Jazz albums, whom I hadn't seen in a while. I felt inspired. My flute solos were pretty good considering that I didn't have a chance to warm up.
I'm still practicing when I can (almost daily; my law practice keeps me very busy).
Mitch Kessler
Hey everybody. Amanda here. My YouTube handle is flute player 86. Just checking in with all my fellow flutists. How are you? Things are well here. Still playing flute and recorder. The performance on May 26 went really well. A friend of mine and I did a trio of pieces. Pussy willows cattails by Gordon Lightfoot, morning has broken by Cat Stevens, and seek first out of the Bible. Matthew chapter 6 verse 33. Pussy willows cattails and seek first were both played on flute, while Morning Has Broken was played on recorder.
Amanda
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Thanks for checking in, Amanda. I had a pleasant suprise Wednesday evening while attending a Jazz jam session, in which I played both sax and flute. The regular guitarist and drummer were absent, and their substitutes were the piano player and drummer with whom I recorded two Jazz albums, whom I hadn't seen in a while. I felt inspired. My flute solos were pretty good considering that I didn't have a chance to warm up.
I'm still practicing when I can (almost daily; my law practice keeps me very busy).
Mitch Kessler
Hey everybody. Amanda here. My YouTube handle is flute player 86. Just checking in with all my fellow flutists. How are you? Things are well here. Still playing flute and recorder. The performance on May 26 went really well. A friend of mine and I did a trio of pieces. Pussy willows cattails by Gordon Lightfoot, morning has broken by Cat Stevens, and seek first out of the Bible. Matthew chapter 6 verse 33. Pussy willows cattails and seek first were both played on flute, while Morning Has Broken was played on recorder.
Amanda
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Checking in with all my flute players
Hey everybody. Amanda here. My YouTube handle is flute player 86. Just checking in with all my fellow flutists. How are you? Things are well here. Still playing flute and recorder. The performance on May 26 went really well. A friend of mine and I did a trio of pieces. Pussy willows cattails by Gordon Lightfoot, morning has broken by Cat Stevens, and seek first out of the Bible. Matthew chapter 6 verse 33. Pussy willows cattails and seek first were both played on flute, while Morning Has Broken was played on recorder.
Amanda
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Checking in on my fellow flute players, plus, my mom is doing well
Hello there fellow flute players. Amanda checking in. I haven't been able to play flute for two weeks because I was sick with Covid. I mean really sick. Not the point where I was hospitalized, but it looks like a really bad cold. My mom is doing well and recovering from cataract surgery. Things are going well here. How are the rest of you doing? Sorry I haven't been very active.
Amanda
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I'm surprised you've never seen a saxophone. Saxophones are ubiquitous.
On Friday, February 9, 2024 at 08:16:04 PM EST, Amanda Shevitski <amanda.shevitski@...> wrote:
That's awesome. Congrats. I'm still working with the Flute myself. I've been playing the flute now for 23 years. Anyhow, it's very busy tonight at work. I work at a restaurant called BJ's where I roll silverware. It's a tedious job, and it does a number on the hands and wrists, but at the end of the day, it's all worth it. I am looking forward to Monday, because I am playing music with a musician friend of mine. She plays piano and violin. I have never seen an actual saxophone up close. When I told my mom, that, she was surprised. I've seen a lot of instruments in my time, including a bassoon, and also an oboe, but never a saxophone.? Amanda
On Feb 9, 2024, at 8:06?PM, bistock22 via groups.io <upphetsade@...> wrote:
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Thanks for checking in. I'm involved in a new project -- a newly-formng jam band in which I'm playing flute and saxophone. The flute's coming along (sax is my primary instrument), but I still do much better improvising in a Jazz or other context than I do at playing repertoire. I'm still trying to work out certain things and plan to sechedule a lesson with a local teacher who's helped me in the past (Christina Desmond, who's a great flutist and teacher! If you're on Flutenet, Christina, I hope you read this).
Mitch Kessler Aspiring (perspiring) flutist
On Friday, February 9, 2024 at 02:08:41 PM EST, Amanda Shevitski <amanda.shevitski@...> wrote:
Hello there. It's Amanda. Just checking in on my fellow players to see how everyone's doing. Things are going well on my end. Last weekend at work, the sound was so overwhelming, I felt like my head was going to explode. Not literally of course, but figuratively. I'm still working with the instrument, and doing well. A friend of mine and I are going to get together on Monday and make a little music. She is a violinist and a pianist. She is inquisitive about how the flute works, so I tried my best to explain how it works to the best of my ability. How is everyone else?
Amanda
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That's awesome. Congrats. I'm still working with the Flute myself. I've been playing the flute now for 23 years. Anyhow, it's very busy tonight at work. I work at a restaurant called BJ's where I roll silverware. It's a tedious job, and it does a number on the hands and wrists, but at the end of the day, it's all worth it. I am looking forward to Monday, because I am playing music with a musician friend of mine. She plays piano and violin. I have never seen an actual saxophone up close. When I told my mom, that, she was surprised. I've seen a lot of instruments in my time, including a bassoon, and also an oboe, but never a saxophone.? Amanda
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On Feb 9, 2024, at 8:06?PM, bistock22 via groups.io <upphetsade@...> wrote:
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Thanks for checking in. I'm involved in a new project -- a newly-formng jam band in which I'm playing flute and saxophone. The flute's coming along (sax is my primary instrument), but I still do much better improvising in a Jazz or other context than I do at playing repertoire. I'm still trying to work out certain things and plan to sechedule a lesson with a local teacher who's helped me in the past (Christina Desmond, who's a great flutist and teacher! If you're on Flutenet, Christina, I hope you read this).
Mitch Kessler Aspiring (perspiring) flutist
On Friday, February 9, 2024 at 02:08:41 PM EST, Amanda Shevitski <amanda.shevitski@...> wrote:
Hello there. It's Amanda. Just checking in on my fellow players to see how everyone's doing. Things are going well on my end. Last weekend at work, the sound was so overwhelming, I felt like my head was going to explode. Not literally of course, but figuratively. I'm still working with the instrument, and doing well. A friend of mine and I are going to get together on Monday and make a little music. She is a violinist and a pianist. She is inquisitive about how the flute works, so I tried my best to explain how it works to the best of my ability. How is everyone else?
Amanda
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Re: Checking in on my fellow flute players
Thanks for checking in. I'm involved in a new project -- a newly-formng jam band in which I'm playing flute and saxophone. The flute's coming along (sax is my primary instrument), but I still do much better improvising in a Jazz or other context than I do at playing repertoire. I'm still trying to work out certain things and plan to sechedule a lesson with a local teacher who's helped me in the past (Christina Desmond, who's a great flutist and teacher! If you're on Flutenet, Christina, I hope you read this).
Mitch Kessler Aspiring (perspiring) flutist
On Friday, February 9, 2024 at 02:08:41 PM EST, Amanda Shevitski <amanda.shevitski@...> wrote:
Hello there. It's Amanda. Just checking in on my fellow players to see how everyone's doing. Things are going well on my end. Last weekend at work, the sound was so overwhelming, I felt like my head was going to explode. Not literally of course, but figuratively. I'm still working with the instrument, and doing well. A friend of mine and I are going to get together on Monday and make a little music. She is a violinist and a pianist. She is inquisitive about how the flute works, so I tried my best to explain how it works to the best of my ability. How is everyone else?
Amanda
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Checking in on my fellow flute players
Hello there. It's Amanda. Just checking in on my fellow players to see how everyone's doing. Things are going well on my end. Last weekend at work, the sound was so overwhelming, I felt like my head was going to explode. Not literally of course, but figuratively. I'm still working with the instrument, and doing well. A friend of mine and I are going to get together on Monday and make a little music. She is a violinist and a pianist. She is inquisitive about how the flute works, so I tried my best to explain how it works to the best of my ability. How is everyone else?
Amanda
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Re: TinyTudes, op. 1 published!
I know. I gave my friend Cynthia, who plays the violin a little bit of a heart attack though, but everything turned out OK. I don't really play the Fife that much, but I have it just in case I wanna play it some. I mostly concentrate on the flute on the recorder. Anyhow, at work at the moment. Things are going well though. Gabrielle is my angel recorder, and Hazel is my main concert flute. My spare flute, which is a Jupiter, is called Rosita.? Amanda
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On Dec 28, 2023, at 6:01?PM, Leonard E. Lopatin <llopatin1@...> wrote:
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?? ?? ? Hi Amanda,
??? ??? Doing anything can cause pain if you do it too much or
too long, or if you do it improperly.? As you say, the flute
doesn't hurt your lip.? That's good.? It means that you are not
using too much pressure against your lip or chin.?
??? ?? About the thumb hole on your fife, I'm afraid I can't say
what can be done about the sharp edges without seeing it myself.?
And in any case, I would advise you against trying to do anything
to it yourself.? For someone who has done any sort of repair or
maintenance of wind instruments, it should be a very easy fix with
a little piece of extremely fine sandpaper wrapped around the end
of a tiny stick or file.? I wouldn't use a file directly on the
hole.? That could cause irreversible damage.
??? ??? I don't know if you have someone who looks after the
repair and maintenance of your flute, but I would leave it to
someone like that to help you with the fife.
??? ??? I'm awfully glad your fall wasn't worse!? (For you or
Gabrielle.) ?
??? ??? Bye for now,
??? ??? Lenny
On 12/28/2023 1:32 PM, Amanda Shevitski
wrote:
Hi Lenny. Amanda here. I just got done playing flute with a friend
of mine who plays violin. I also played the recorder a little bit
as well. I took a fall, but I'm OK. I caught my foot on a chair on
the back porch, the wrong way, and took a small tumble. I'm OK
though. My recorder, Gabrielle, who is an angel recorder is fine
too. She took a pretty hard hit, but I'm surprised she still
plays. Anyway, my godmother asked me if the flute hurts my lip. I
said not at all. She thought it did, but it doesn't. I have a
small Fife, and the Fife has a thumb hole that is sharp around the
edges. I play this instrument, but afterwards, my thumb has a
small blister. Do you know of a way to file that thumb hole down a
little? It's sharp around the edges.?
Amanda
? ??? ??? Hi again, Amanda,
??? ??? I forgot to mention my flute company's website,
which is: squareoneflutes.com .? You can find lots more
about what I do there.
??? ??? Lenny
On 12/27/2023 3:22 AM, Amanda Shevitski wrote:
Hi Leonard. What types of flutes
do you make?
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?? ?? ? Hi Amanda,
??? ??? Doing anything can cause pain if you do it too much or
too long, or if you do it improperly.? As you say, the flute
doesn't hurt your lip.? That's good.? It means that you are not
using too much pressure against your lip or chin.?
??? ?? About the thumb hole on your fife, I'm afraid I can't say
what can be done about the sharp edges without seeing it myself.?
And in any case, I would advise you against trying to do anything
to it yourself.? For someone who has done any sort of repair or
maintenance of wind instruments, it should be a very easy fix with
a little piece of extremely fine sandpaper wrapped around the end
of a tiny stick or file.? I wouldn't use a file directly on the
hole.? That could cause irreversible damage.
??? ??? I don't know if you have someone who looks after the
repair and maintenance of your flute, but I would leave it to
someone like that to help you with the fife.
??? ??? I'm awfully glad your fall wasn't worse!? (For you or
Gabrielle.) ?
??? ??? Bye for now,
??? ??? Lenny
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Hi Lenny. Amanda here. I just got done playing flute with a friend
of mine who plays violin. I also played the recorder a little bit
as well. I took a fall, but I'm OK. I caught my foot on a chair on
the back porch, the wrong way, and took a small tumble. I'm OK
though. My recorder, Gabrielle, who is an angel recorder is fine
too. She took a pretty hard hit, but I'm surprised she still
plays. Anyway, my godmother asked me if the flute hurts my lip. I
said not at all. She thought it did, but it doesn't. I have a
small Fife, and the Fife has a thumb hole that is sharp around the
edges. I play this instrument, but afterwards, my thumb has a
small blister. Do you know of a way to file that thumb hole down a
little? It's sharp around the edges.?
Amanda
? ??? ??? Hi again, Amanda,
??? ??? I forgot to mention my flute company's website,
which is: squareoneflutes.com .? You can find lots more
about what I do there.
??? ??? Lenny
On 12/27/2023 3:22 AM, Amanda Shevitski wrote:
Hi Leonard. What types of flutes
do you make?
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