New brannen brothers flutes flute center of new york. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. I hope you will enjoy this arrangement of the chopin waltz. The orchestral model flute and the kingma system flute. Following the death in 2011 of the groups key member, albert cooper, the man. To allude that these were pulled out of mysterious places is a bit premature. Brannen flutes manufacturers carolyn nussbaum music. It is the powell conservatory 9k flute with 14k gold wings on the lip plate i previously used a brannon cooper 10k flute.
Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. One of my favourite pictures is a picture of marilyn with jack and albert cooper outside their elkhart home. Original 14k gold albert cooper hj please call 302. A great resource besides albert coopers flute book which is impossible to get this is the only other classical authority on flute maintenance. Another workinprogress is a short biography of albert cooper, flute maker.
Powell adopted his scale which had revolutionized the modern flute, and his headjoints were worldfamous. The flute network is a nonprofit corporation serving flutists, flute teachers, and the people who love them. Albert cooper, the late british flutemaker, joined brannen brothers in 1978 as a partner and vice president of research. I play a flute with the bennet scale, but other flutes have the cooper scale. During the 1960s flute maker albert cooper and a group of english players rescaled the model to fit a standard pitch of a440 that had come into worldwide use by about 1950. One of albert cooper s many contributions to flute design was his experimentation with undercutting. Albert cooper, master flutemaker, died after a short illness january 25, 2011.
I was very fortunate to be introduced to albert cooper by albert honey. Landell are working with albert cooper to design an ultimate new cooper scale. Make offer buffet crampon paris 6000 cooper series ii flute complete with 3 cases. After discharge, he returned to rudall carte but left in 1959 and set himself up as flute maker.
He held this position until 1990 and was then named vicepresident emeritus until his death in 2011, and remains a legendary figure in the flute world. A complete guide for students and performers by nancy toff, the man with the golden flute. Undercutting is the process of blending the side walls of the embouchure hole into the inside wall of the tube. Save this book to read albert cooper fluteworx pdf ebook at our. He agreed to construct a new foot joint which would convert my flute to open dg. The flute embouchure comparison gauge is for use by players and is designed to help determine more exactly what suits them when. Superb 14k headjoint by albert cooper courtesy of r trevisani albert cooper. Little wizard enterprises is announcing a special sale on the few very special books currently available and in stock, as we make room for the new things to come. The inventor of the modern flute, boehm, felt that closed keys were superior. Flute pro shops snow day survival guide 11212 call to action. Albert cooper s new design for flauto damore, 1989 the new instrument flutist gianluca petrucci spoke to legendary flute maker albert cooper about the possibility of designing a modernsystem flauto damore in a. He travels the world giving masterclasses and concerts, serves.
Contrary to what might be expected of a famous flautist, wye did not attend a college of music, nor a conservatory, nor a university. At that time there was a great shortage of wind instruments and dirk kuiper, who was the second flutist in the concertgebouw orchestra of amsterdam, founded his small company to meet the demand for new flutes. The orchestral model, designed by albert cooper, improves intonation and response in the third register both by altering the size and placement of several left. I have discovered that two players in an extended test both before and after tea, and without altering the headjoint in any way, blew a flute 7 vibrations apart. Wye teaches in his flute studio in kent, which is a oneyear residential course for postgraduate students established in 1990. Cooper had previously worked at a few tenor b flat models, but the flauto damore presented a completely new challenge. Brannen brothers also produces two unique lines of flutes. Albert cooper born 1924 is a british flute maker who apprenticed at rudall carte until the war.
Albert cooper april 12, 1924 january 25, 2011 was a british flute maker who apprenticed at. Trevor wye has written a wonderful rememberance of albert cooper and sent along some terrific early pictures its an. Trevor wye is a professional flautist, flute instructor, and author of several books about technical aspects of flute playing. Marcel moyse played closed hole, and flute maker albert cooper suggested, in designing his cooper scale that its probable that openholed create more tuning problems then they solve, but the jury is. The western concert flute is a transverse sideblown woodwind instrument made of metal or wood. Maintaining a flute part two playing, practising and developing technique 7.
Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. He worked with albert cooper, renowned designer and creator of the cooper scale, jack moore, and other flutemakers experimenting with flute design and tuning during the mid to late20th century. This book describes his principles of flute construction and the cooper scale, which is found on many professional flutes today. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist, flutist, flute player, or rarely fluter. Flute maker albert cooper the legendary flute maker and creator of the now modern scale the cooper scale considers the french models scale inherently less accurate because it overcompensates for the sharpening effect of the perforations. In addition, many famous names in flute history honed their trade at rudall carte, including albert cooper, ewen mcdougall and harry seeley the last two of whom, along with five other carte workers, went on to set up flutemakers guild. All brannen brothers flutes use the scale developed by their vicepresident emeritus, albert cooper. Our work with albert cooper led to three innovations at brannen brothers. The cooper scale, which albert began developing in the 1960s with elmer cole. At the same time cooper introduced new styles of cutting the flute s embouchure hole, further altering its soundideals. While this served to correct the pitch in the center registers, all other octaves did not.
British flute maker albert cooper is noted for his contributions to flute and headjoint design. Flute maker albert cooper the legendary flute maker and creator of the now modern scale the cooper scale considers the french models scale inherently less accurate because it overcompensates for the. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Brannen brothers flutes currently offers four headjoint. And this may not at all be the widest variation possible. He founded the international summer school for flute. We had many conversations during the work on susans book about this. I worked on many different projects over the years but the best time was when i was responsible for making clarinet mouthpieces 9521010 and sterling silver flute heads 925 to the albert cooper. I spent the war years 19401946 at school in south africa.
Our most projecting, responsive style ever, the epoch is less resistance than the other brannen cooper headjoint styles. Cooper also explains the effect of various parts of the flute. I started working at the age of 14 years in at the flutemaking firm of rudall carte in london. Brannen flutes manufacturers carolyn nussbaum music company. One major change of note made since that time is a rescaling of the flute to a440hz during the 1960s by an english flute maker named albert cooper. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Written with the aim of sending the serious flutist hobbyist on his way to basic and more flute maintenance. In 1974, bickford brannen visited albert cooper in london, brought the scale back to powell flutes, and so contributed to an historic decision. His first project with cooper involved keywork adaptations that produced the first murray system flute. The kingma company originated in holland in the early 1950s, shortly after world war ii.
Powell adopted his scale which had revolutionized the. Buffet crampon paris silver flute 228e good working conditioncasenice flute. Albert cooper april 12, 1924 january 25, 2011 was a british flute maker who apprenticed at rudall carte until world war ii. Superb 14k headjoint by albert cooper courtesy of r trevisani. The cg, d, and dg keys were placed in line from an axle on the nearside of the flute. Todays flute is based on boehms innovations, with modifications that vary somewhat depending on the instrument maker. Pahud chose the brannen flute body because it is one of the only flute makers that produce a decent cooper scale, based on the scales developed by albert cooper flute maker. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. When i returned to england i had the good fortune to meet a natural flute player, stanley farnsworth, who was a visitor to my hometown on the occasion of his nieces wedding. Mauro scappini lesson reading at first sight duration. At that time 1958 i was fortunate in meeting albert cooper, an artist flute maker, formerly with rudall carte and who had left to begin making flutes on his own. Speedy tanaka and william bennett shared an admiration for albert cooper s vision of updating and modernizing the traditional flute scale, creating the altusbennett scale a new standard for flute design. Written with the aim of sending the serious flutist hobbyist on his way to basic and more flute.
Powell, at the height of prestige and with no need to innovate, introduced not just a new scale but an entirely new instrument and approach to flutemaking. Prior to this new scale, flute makers would correct the tuning of a435 commonly found on flutes by cutting the end of the headjoint to bring pitch up to a440. The orchestral model, designed by albert cooper, improves intonation and response in the third register both by altering the size and placement of several left hand tone holes and incorporating a halfclosing thumb mechanism. In the 1970s, armstrong developed a new flute scale in conjunction with albert cooper. They brand the open holes a significant flaw, the one acoustical crime that has been perpetrated against the boehm flute, in millers words. This type of flute is used in many ensembles, including concert bands.
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