Cincinnati Fluteworks - Flute Stuff & Essentials

Over the last few days, we've been working on updating our website...until something went wrong and it crashed. So for now, we're going to stick with Repair Prices from 2015!. The web site is back up and the email is also! Thanks for your patience.
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Cincinnati Fluteworks

Elementary, my dear Watson!

Sometimes, my job is playing sleuth. This helps in diagnosing mechanism and pad problems but sometimes it takes me down other “mysterious dark alleys”. A teacher who sent her flute in religiously for an Annual Maintenance always complained about scratches reappearing after I had burnished them away during the maintenance. P.S.Scratches don’t reappear. After checking her case to make sure there was nothing stuck to the velvet, we had several phone conversations talking through her routines to see what could be scratching it. She realized that they would “reappear” after gigs… not every gig though. We talked about the venues, her flute stand, etc. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. We didn’t have a clue. We were friends on Facebook, so I looked through her pics to see if I could notice anything amiss. Everything looked fine and her dresses were beautiful. Her DRESSES. One had a beautifully embroidered appliqué on the front. . . with a little sparkle in it. I grabbed the phone. Sure enough, the embroidery had a couple of tiny sequins. Every time she would lay her flute on her lap, the sequins would scratch her flute! Elementary, Watson!

Look out for:
-Front and sleeve buttons on suit jackets.
-Decorations on band uniforms
-Rings. Never grab your headjoint around the lip plate. One ring scratch there can really effect your tone. Take off rings if you can.
-Any decorations of the front of dresses. It’s ok to lay your polishing cloth across your lap to avoid scratching your flute. You can get a black one for gigs.

I hope this helps!