Categories
general flutesites
discussion lists
flute ergonomy & musicians health
adaptive instruments
instrument makers
organisations
acoustics
General flutesites
Check out the Flute directory
De Fluitstudio my Dutch website
De Fluitstudio
links; jumps directly to the Dutch links section
Larry Krantz flutesite
The best flutesite in the world
John Rayworth's site
flute site with lots of nice photographs of flute parts
All About Flutes;Clear
flute buying advice for the beginner and intermediate flutist
The Woodwind Fingering
Guide really practical
Tipbook publisher of
the Tipboek Dwarsfluit
Historical Flutes
page by Rick Wilson
The Flute Studio
just to avoid confusion: De Fluitstudio is in Amsterdam and The Flute Studio
is in Singapore and we have nothing to do with each other
Dayton
C. Miller Collection the most important flute collection in the world
FluteInfo
has lots of informative external links, and some very informative articles
about arm pain
Discussion lists
Flutistgroup is a very relaxed email discission group.
Flute List
is a very large email discussion group. It is run by Larry Krantz and his
companions.
Dwarsfluit
is a Dutch language flute discussion group
Flutemakers
discussion list with Yahoo Groups If you're a flute builder, please join
our lively group!
MIMF Musical Instrument Makers
Forum, with discussions on many instruments
International
Forum on adaptive musical instrument for persons with disabilities
Flute ergonomy & musicians health
Dont play
with pain; Article by Barbara Hauser on the Larry Kranz site.
Health
Issues and Design Features lists all the related files in the Larry Krantz
site
Ergonomic
Design Features for the Flute Article by Pauline Mancuso on the Larry
Krantz site, on how to modify your own flute
Postural
Considerations in Flute Playing Some excellent advice by the chiropractor
Jameson
Alimed maker of ergonomic
chairs and the popular Ergocush
Les Affections du Membre Superieur chez les Musiciens article
by Raoul Tubiana, mostly epidemiological (Francais).
Alexander technique
for musicians very good introduction to Alexander Technique
Musicians
and Injuries good general page with lots of references to books and videos.
Focal dystonia
foundation
Guitarists health and safety pages
Judith
Pertz research on music and Dyslexia . A unique site with Judith's
extensive reporting on her experience with teaching music to dyslectic children.
Now finally in english!
Adaptive
instruments
One-handed recorders
by Dolmetsch nearly as good as those by The Fluitstudio
One-handed Boehm
flute made by De Fluitstudio, site by owner (Nederlands/ English/ Magyar)
Instrumente Fuer Behinderte
the Mollenhauer site also with adapted instruments (Deutsch/ English)
West Music carries
some adapted instruments mostly simple
Wiggers
hand supports for trombone, and other brass adaptations (Dutch only)
One handed
Woodwinds Program at the University of Nebraska Kearney, led by prof.
david Nabb
One-handed recorder
a DIY project by Bob Harrell
My BreathMyMusic makes an incredible wind controller named The Magic Flute.Here on youtube.
Instrument makers
Eva Kingma alto/bass/contrabass/quarter
tone flute maker
Ton Kooiman
Dutch instrument maker who produces the best thumb rests for oboes and clarinets-
and some fine headjoints, too
Jim
Schmidt maker of very special saxophones, flutes and pads for both. He
also has re-invented the Boehm flute in an amazing way. Also his flute pads
are the best in the world .
Sandy Drelinger excellent
flute head maker
Matit Finnish carbon
fibre flute
Maarten Vonk makes The Vonk,
an excellent bassoon stand that takes the weight out of playing
Newark Technical College
This is where Maarten Visser, owner of this site, learned how to make instruments.
Organisations
Nederlands Fluit Genootschap
Dutch Flute Society
British Flute Society
DGfMM German Association
on Physiology of Music and Performing Arts Medicine /Deutsche Gesellschaft
fnr Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin e.V.
MTdecine des Arts
French association, with publications on musician's health
Performing Arts Medicine
Organises symposium
NVVM: Nederlandse
Vereniging Muziekinstrumenten Makers The Dutch Society of Musical Instrument
Makers.
Association Française
de la Flûte French Flute Society
New Flute Generation
Swiss flute society
NVDMD Dutch Society
for Music and Dance Medicine
Musicians
Without Borders these guys deserve your support.
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Acoustics
Peter Kosel's page
University of
New South Wales acoustics pages
IRCAM their RESONANS program
is probably the best in the world
MARL Musical
Acoustics Research Library, containing the Backus archive, Benade archive,
Coltman erchive and more
Praat very
refined program for sound analysis, from the University of Amsterdam
Audio-T my favorite
spectrum analyser
Tune!It
a great tuner for windows computers. If you use it, register your copy,this
guy deserves it
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