The Virtual Flute

Gene:

"Great! But now, how hard would it be to play
22 or 19? How flexible is flute intonation?"

Petr:

"Well, I have a regular flute with no "quartertone add-ons" here..."

I'd like to see 17- and 19-tone production as well, but I'm thankful at
least for the reliable quarter-tones! Petr, you might want to check out
this page -- which I found in passing -- since to be of use some
knowledge of transverse flute fingerings is required and I have none
such:

www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute/virtual/main.html
<http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute/virtual/main.html>

One can determine multiphonics and apparently microtones (I hope!) for
the flute, so if you derive any good 17- or 19-tone fingerings from
this, please let Gene and I know!

Best,

jls

For John Smith:
I know this service very well. I often use it when trying to find out some
fingerings. I first discovered this in 2003 or so. There are excellent pages
on flute acoustics on that website and I've learned a lot from them.
Eventually, they also give links to Terry McGee's webpages about flute
history and about Irish flutes. And these, in the end, lead me to some other
flute history pages some time ago. As a result, I began interested in flute
acoustics about three years ago or so -- though I'm rather a keyboard
player, having attended piano lessons for more than 15 years. But I love the
sound of the flute and I like playing it, even though I'm not a great
flutist.

Petr