Historical and Modern Flutes | Boulder Bach Festival | Ysmael Reyes

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The flute is very nice.

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Greetings Ysmael! I really enjoyed this. You sound fantastic in the Beaudin flute.

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Thanks John! It's so nice to hear from you. The Beaudin is a wonderful instrument. You should try it sometime.

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[@Ailanto]

The features that really make the difference in sound between traverso and modern flute are internal bore diameter and shape, and finger hole diameters. Modern flute bore is cylindrical and narrow with very big holes, while baroque traverso bore is conical and wide with rather smaller finger holes.

[@Frederer59]

Yes, except in this case the Beaudin traverso is unique in that the bore is in fact cylindrical. The presenter did not mention this. It is certainly a bold design. It will be interesting to see if it becomes widely accepted.

[@Frederer59]

There is a precedent for a cylindrical bore baroque flute design by the 17c. flute maker Lissieu. (See Boaz Berney.) I think it uses Renaissance flute fingerings so it's a sort of a link between a Renaissance and Baroque? I Beaudin is striving to adapt to the much louder modern musical environments yet still have the character of a baroque flute.

[@Ailanto]

@@Frederer59 you are right, renaissance flutes were louder. I guess baroque makers sacrificed loudness just in order to expand the high register.

[@HenryBertolucci]

Renaissance flutes have the same range as baroque ones (mine easily reaches 3rd octave C), although some models are limited to 3rd octave G. Probably they simply started to enjoy a flute having a more "recorder like" sound, whereas renaissance flutes can resemble us (if well made) to reeds or even the cornetto.

[@HenryBertolucci]

It seems for flutes pitch really matters. A 440hz flute will be necessarily louder than a 415 or 390hz one (Lissieu was 460+) unless you make its holes ridiculously small. And this explains why some makers never get any success when trying to adapt a historical flutes to another pitch: the timbre is going to be different, they will be another instrument. Among historical models, if I remember it well, we seldom see such thing as a 440hz baroque traverso. Of course it would be possible, but they probably preferred a warmer and softer sounding instrument instead. If I were mr. Beaudin I would instead call this flute an improved renaissance traverso (fingerings also aren't that relevant, some historical models play well with both renaissance or baroque fingerings, if well made, however renaissance finger charts used third harmonics a lot, which have a more interesting color).