Wooden Head Joints
Thin-wall wooden head joints for western concert flutes
Hand-crafted by Martin Doyle from African blackwood, Cocus and Boxwood. Wooden head joints offer a variety of tones and colours wiich can greatly enhance a flute players versatility.
- 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 Euro
For more information about these wooden head joints, please contact Martin Doyle.
Elizabeth Petcu, Retired Principal Flute of the RTE Concert Orchestra of Ireland (it is worth noting that Elizabeth was with the RTE for over 25 years), had the following to say about Martin Doyle's wooden head joints for western concert flutes.
"I have been playing on Martin Doyle's cocus wood 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 head joint on a Muramatsu concert flute – Martin Doyle's personal instrument.
Above: Cutting a lip plate into a cocus head joint 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 Head Joints for Concert Flutes.