http://www.flutelore.com/blog The best flute blog around Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:40:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Mountain Ocarina is a new breed of ocarinas. Invented by Karl Ahrens, these little fellows will fit in the palm of your hand. They have a sound quality quite good for an ocarina, and are capable of about one-and-a-half octaves. Mountain ocarinas come in two keys, C, and G. ... http://www.flutelore.com/blog/9/mountain-ocarinas/ Recently, I visited Jamestown. In the gift shop I found some cheap bamboo fifes. The visitor center The Fifes were only 2.00, so I said, what the heck, and bought one. Basket of 'Bamboo Fifes' in the shop An artistic picture of the unopened fife. Then of course there was that gosh darn piece of ... http://www.flutelore.com/blog/13/two-dollar-flute-from-jamestown/ Theobald Friedrich Boehm (1794-1881), the man behind the modern flute (Western Concert Flute). He was born April 9, 1794–Munich Bavaria, Germany–the son of the goldsmith Karl Boehm. As most boys of the early eighteen-hundreds, he learned his father's trade. Boehm was very interested in flutes, and soon he had used his ... http://www.flutelore.com/blog/7/western-concert-flutes-theobald-f-boehm/ The 'Western Concert Flute' is the type of flute played in an orchestra. When one pictures the word 'flute,' in their mind, one of the pictures that may come to mind is this: a long silver tube with many thin rods, openings of different sizes, and an embouchere hole (this ... http://www.flutelore.com/blog/1/hello-world/