Patrick Olwell Feb 20 6 min Glossary: Anatomy of a Wooden Flute In the interest of clarity when discussing the details of wooden flute design, here are some terms that are common to both historical and...
Patrick Olwell Aug 22, 2020 3 min Flute Sound: Vibration and the Bones of the Face I have long been intrigued by my own experience and other flute players’ reports that different types of wood have different sound...
Patrick Olwell Apr 3, 2019 3 min A Taxonomy of Tone Holes Many discussions of the different types of simple-system flutes currently played in Irish music mention tone-hole size in comparing...