Wooden Headjoints
Thin-wall wooden headjoints for concert flutes
Wooden headjoints offer a variety of tones and colours which can greatly enhance a flute players versatility. Martin Doyle crafts wooden headjoints from African blackwood, Cocuswood and Boxwood,
- African Blackwood offers a strong, powerful tone and is a very durable timber.
- Cocus wood offers a lovely three dimensional sound with lots of colour in the tone.
- Boxwood offers a softer and milder tone — a lovely Baroque sound.
Price: €1,000.00
For more information about wooden headjoints for western concert flutes, kindly contact Martin Doyle.
A testimonial to Martin Doyle's wooden headjoints:
Elizabeth Petcu, retired Principal Flute of the RTE Concert Orchestra of Ireland (Elizabeth was with the RTE for over 25 years) had the following to say about Martin Doyle's wooden headjoints for western concert flutes:
“I have been playing on Martin Doyle's cocuswood headjoint for many years now. I may even have had the honour of playing on the prototype. The page here would not be roomy enough for me to express how much I love it. All I can say is that it always lures me into playing well.”
Above: A cocus headjoint on a Muramatsu concert flute — Martin Doyle's personal instrument.
Above: Cutting a lip plate into a cocus headjoint designed for a concert flute.
Below: Twenty-four hours later, the finished product.
More images can be found on Martin Doyle's Flickr album: Wooden Headjoints for Concert Flutes.
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