Undercutting is the process of blending the side walls of the embouchure hole into the inside wall of the tube. Brannen brothers also produces two unique lines of flutes. Make offer buffet crampon paris 6000 cooper series ii flute complete with 3 cases. Our most projecting, responsive style ever, the epoch is less resistance than the other brannen cooper headjoint styles. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. After discharge, he returned to rudall carte but left in 1959 and set himself up as flute maker. Brannen flutes manufacturers carolyn nussbaum music company. 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. 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. One of albert cooper s many contributions to flute design was his experimentation with undercutting. Written with the aim of sending the serious flutist hobbyist on his way to basic and more flute. This type of flute is used in many ensembles, including concert bands.
The flute embouchure comparison gauge is for use by players and is designed to help determine more exactly what suits them when. All brannen brothers flutes use the scale developed by their vicepresident emeritus, albert cooper. Original 14k gold albert cooper hj please call 302. British flute maker albert cooper is noted for his contributions to flute and headjoint design. I started working at the age of 14 years in at the flutemaking firm of rudall carte in london. Trevor wye has written a wonderful rememberance of albert cooper and sent along some terrific early pictures its an. A musician who plays the flute is called a flautist, flutist, flute player, or rarely fluter. The flute network is a nonprofit corporation serving flutists, flute teachers, and the people who love them. Buffet crampon paris silver flute 228e good working conditioncasenice flute. Albert cooper, the late british flutemaker, joined brannen brothers in 1978 as a partner and vice president of research. Superb 14k headjoint by albert cooper courtesy of r trevisani. 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. 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 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.
To allude that these were pulled out of mysterious places is a bit premature. The cg, d, and dg keys were placed in line from an axle on the nearside of the flute. This book describes his principles of flute construction and the cooper scale, which is found on many professional flutes today. Powell adopted his scale which had revolutionized the modern flute, and his headjoints were worldfamous. He travels the world giving masterclasses and concerts, serves. One of my favourite pictures is a picture of marilyn with jack and albert cooper outside their elkhart home. 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.
I hope you will enjoy this arrangement of the chopin waltz. Written with the aim of sending the serious flutist hobbyist on his way to basic and more flute maintenance. At the same time cooper introduced new styles of cutting the flute s embouchure hole, further altering its soundideals. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. He founded the international summer school for flute. A complete guide for students and performers by nancy toff, the man with the golden flute. Save this book to read albert cooper fluteworx pdf ebook at our. The cooper scale, which albert began developing in the 1960s with elmer cole. 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. Brannen brothers flutes currently offers four headjoint. 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.
Flute pro shops snow day survival guide 11212 call to action. They brand the open holes a significant flaw, the one acoustical crime that has been perpetrated against the boehm flute, in millers words. 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. Albert cooper april 12, 1924 january 25, 2011 was a british flute maker who apprenticed at. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. The inventor of the modern flute, boehm, felt that closed keys were superior.
New brannen brothers flutes flute center of new york. This probably would give most flute players around the world a coronary on the spot. I was very fortunate to be introduced to albert cooper by albert honey. From 1959 onwards i produced about 95 flutes and many headjoints. 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. And this may not at all be the widest variation possible. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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. The orchestral model flute and the kingma system flute. 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. A great resource besides albert coopers flute book which is impossible to get this is the only other classical authority on flute maintenance. 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.
Contrary to what might be expected of a famous flautist, wye did not attend a college of music, nor a conservatory, nor a university. In 1974, bickford brannen visited albert cooper in london, brought the scale back to powell flutes, and so contributed to an historic decision. Powell adopted his scale which had revolutionized the. In the 1970s, armstrong developed a new flute scale in conjunction with albert cooper. Mauro scappini lesson reading at first sight duration. Wye teaches in his flute studio in kent, which is a oneyear residential course for postgraduate students established in 1990. 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. The western concert flute is a transverse sideblown woodwind instrument made of metal or wood. 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. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. I spent the war years 19401946 at school in south africa. Albert cooper april 12, 1924 january 25, 2011 was a british flute maker who apprenticed at rudall carte until world war ii. Our work with albert cooper led to three innovations at brannen brothers. Albert cooper, master flutemaker, died after a short illness january 25, 2011.
This short primer on scaleand why every flutist needs to understand its importance includes a heartfelt appeal for the open informationsharing that defined the character of the late albert cooper. Albert cooper born 1924 is a british flute maker who apprenticed at rudall carte until the war. Cooper also explains the effect of various parts of the flute. 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.
Cooper had previously worked at a few tenor b flat models, but the flauto damore presented a completely new challenge. It is the powell conservatory 9k flute with 14k gold wings on the lip plate i previously used a brannon cooper 10k flute. 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. Landell are working with albert cooper to design an ultimate new cooper scale. Maintaining a flute part two playing, practising and developing technique 7. 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. Brannen flutes manufacturers carolyn nussbaum music. Superb 14k headjoint by albert cooper courtesy of r trevisani albert cooper. He agreed to construct a new foot joint which would convert my flute to open dg. I play a flute with the bennet scale, but other flutes have the cooper scale.
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