September 2011

  • Ian McLauchlan’s Guide To Making A Headjoint: The Riser

    Ian McLauchlan’s Guide To Making A Headjoint: The Riser

    In my first two articles in this series I talked about how I make a headjoint tube and lip-plate. This article covers the riser: a part that you don’t really see but that is an important part of the headjoint. The riser (also called the chimney, or by some American flutemakers, the ‘wall’) gives the…

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