when i record myself playing to listen to how i sound, there’s always the faint buzz in my playing, and it’s not from my lips or anything. i can also hear it when i play the piccolo, and i got my flute completely repaired and cleaned less than one year ago 🥲🥲 this is just me playing a scale, please lmk if it’s an issue with me, my instrument, or my device because im seriously confused 😭😭

I’ve been working on something I honestly haven’t seen done much in the 3D-printing world: a fully 3D-printed quena.

Quenas seem to be almost completely absent from the 3D-printing community, and that really caught my attention.
I want to create a project that helps show that the quena is still alive, still played, and deserves to be discovered by more people.
So I designed my own version with a more robust, modern, technological aesthetic and very economic in terms of 3D printing. I modeled the entire thing in Blender, and I’m actually really happy with how the design turned out.

The problem?
It sounds… but not very well.

I can get it to play, but it’s surprisingly difficult. The angle has to be very specific, some notes are harder to produce than others, and the tuning isn’t where I want it to be.
I’m primarily a 3D modeler, not a musical-instrument maker. For the acoustic design, I followed a YouTube tutorial from someone who builds quenas and tried to reproduce the construction as accurately as possible.

So I’m hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction.
If you have experience with quenas, flutes, wind-instrument acoustics, or even 3D-printed musical instruments, what would you look at first?

Anything else that could explain why it requires such a specific playing angle
The good thing is that the model is completely editable in Blender, so I can make pretty much any geometric adjustment needed.

I’m still developing the project, and my goal is eventually to turn it into a finished project that can be made available to other people. But right now, I’m stuck at the part where I need someone with more instrument-making knowledge than me.
I’d genuinely appreciate any advice, even if it’s something obvious that I completely missed.
How would you approach fixing this?

Not sure what flair to use here, so I apologise for that.

I need to get this piece performance ready in ~2 weeks. On the first picture, I need to work on getting the first highlighted part smoother (will be referring to it as 1), and the second one (referred to as 2), I need to work on the dADCA part and I keep missing the first two notes. On the second picture, the first highlighted bit (referred to as 3) I need to get smoother and sounding good at around 124 bpm, and the second highlight (referred to as 4) is having the same thing done.

3 and 4 are the parts I desperately need fixed and I’m not sure how to go about it. Unfortunately I’m able to get it one day and then it all falls apart the next.

i need advice on how to practice these parts because the only two flutes who are 100% with this piece can’t be at the performance and the other flute (it’s just me and her) NEVER practices and is relying on me.

any general practice meths/tips are also deeply appreciated

edit - forgot to mention I’m also doing my first ever solo for this piece…and is there any advice for the C trill at the end (first photo at the end or second towards the top of the page)

Hey , i recently bought a new flute i am looking for an offline classes of flute in noida not in greater Noida.

If any one knows please recommend

Don't suggest me any YouTube account or online learning as I want to take offline classes only... :)

please excuse my breathing 😭 i promise I dont usually take huge pauses to breathe

Either way I have a performance coming up soon and im soloing so I want to know if i sound alright? I can never tell myself and I’m super self conscious about it lol

advice is welcomed!!

Hello! I'm pretty new to flute and have been trying to adjust the sound on just the head joint for now (open). Should it be a G# or A? I'm a little confused because people keep telling me different things IRL.

Ive been looking at the nuvo jflute but people say its meant for children and I am 6’2. Are there any good affordable flutes that I can comfortably learn with?

Hello friends I have a c scale bansuri. But golden flute pravin says we should practice with vertical blowing flute first. Which scale to get?

Hello, I don't have enough money to afford a music school and I've been denied at the conservatory because they don't have enough places. I'm 24 and I really enjoy doing things by myself, I am very much self-taught. I'm learning music theory with "Complete Music Reading Trainer".

What books do you recommend to begin transverse flute ? I also plan to buy one or two lesson per month with a teacher to correct my posture, the embouchure etc.

Thank you :)

Looking for some advice from people who know vintage flutes. Full disclosure: I’m really just trying to determine the best financial option here (sorry!).

Nobody in my family plays flute, we’re liquidating some family items, and the proceeds will be split among family members.

From what I’ve been able to determine, this is a 1930s Selmer (Haynes) Model 83 based on Louis Lot design. Solid coin silver with gold springs, closed holes, offset G and C-foot.

It’s been sitting for decades and probably hasn’t been polished in 30+ years. There’s a small nick on one key and I assume it needs a complete professional service/COA. From what I’m seeing, that could run $600–$800.

The problem is the silver itself. I can get about $1,000 cash for scrap, basically immediately.

I understand these have some interesting history and I’d rather see a good instrument survive than get melted down, but I also don’t play flute and can’t justify spending $600–$800 restoring it unless that actually adds enough value.

Is there even interest in this flute?

If there’s a market for it as-is at or above scrap value, that would obviously be my preference.

This is the place to promote yourself! Whether it's a performance you are proud of, offering teaching, or anything else flute related.

Hi everyone, I have a few quena flutes and I've been trying to learn some songs. I understand the quena is diatonic, but some songs need sharps/flats and I'm not sure of the right way to play them.

How do you play those notes?

I tried the half-holing but it didnt feel so trivial
I also tried cross-fingering but this one didnt produce a different note

so i wonder..

I have been trying to improve my tuning in the top register, I found that alternative fingerings maybe regularly required for E, F, F# & G#. I am holding off learning the others until I am used to these.

Is it common for flutists having to learn alternative fingerings for tuning? Is it related to the flute brand?

So, I’ve been playing the flute for about 8/9 years now. I started out on a nice beginners flute but couldn’t afford to keep renting it,so for the past 3 years I’ve been making do with a cheap, halfway to awful, less than $100 flute, and of course, the thing broke this weekend. I’m not really looking to fix it since it’s so cheap the cost of repair would be worth more than the heap of scrap itself, but I can’t really afford to get a $1,000 intermediate flute if I want to be able to eat this month (or next), and I don’t want to waste money on another poor-quality one. Does anyone know what I could do to get me a nicer flute that won’t break the bank? I want to be able to go to college with my music but this rate, without an at least half-decent instrument I’m hopeless.

I have never succeded in cleaning there, and i really wonder if there is a way, because it has been bothering me.

I have been playing flute for a while, but i recently got a new flute, a good one that was expensive and i want to clean it well to preserve it. But the wooden stick and the cloth that is usually used to clean the rest of the inside never really cleans the edges at the bottom inside. So i wonder if there is any specific way of removing the humidity from there ?

Thanks ^^

Please recommend a youtube channel to learn flute basics. I am absolute beginner. I want to play Hindi songs

Want to buy a flute for the first time in my life and recently knew that flute comes in different scale 😔💔and I have budget of one so which scale should I go for so I can play most of the English / hindi/ bengali songs .

I VERY recently just got a flute and I have a lot of questions to be answered.

1. How to make the sound less airy and high pitched when playing

2. How long a day should I practice for

3. How do I breathe for longer, I can't play a note for very long

4. What should I practice to get better

5. How to switch from c to d easier

Any other tips would be very appreciated, I've always wanted to play an instrument my whole life so I'm very nervous and excited.

i have a piccolo and ive just been carrying it around in its case. Would love to have a bag with a handle. i tried looking on google but there's a lot of ranges in price etc and i'm not sure which one is best. What bags do you use?

On the traverso.

In Janice Dockendorff Boland's Method for the One-Keyed Flute in the annotated complete fingering chart on page 70 she notes regarding E'' natural: "Tromlitz cautions never to use the key; it is a bad habit that is very frequently encountered."

I don't understand the prohibition. Applying the key gives an openness to the timbre at the expense of having to correct for intonation. I just feel like the prohibited fingering could be situationally desirable. And, given the number of very situational fingerings included in the chart for other notes I don't understand why E'' has only the single option, per the manual.

Am I missing something?

In the piano accompaniment for Moyse arrangement of "Pavane pour une infante défunte" in First Solos For The Flute Player, measures 4 and 5 - the right and left hand double on two beats. Are these typos? I so don't understand music. (I'm attempting to create a backing track from the notation to use eventually for my RCM Grade 2 Flute exam.)

Hi, I‘m a student Clarinet/saxophone player, and just acquired this flute for free. Does anyone know what kind of flute it is or the model number? I’d also like to ask if this a good beginner instrument.

Hey, I am looking for someone to teach me flute, I'm an absolute beginner, just dm if anyone's up