Generally people don’t order readymade Flute having Thumb-hole. I suggest you visit a nearby Flute maker with your existing bass Flute, discuss together your playing style and resolve the thumb-hole. Its a matter of not more than 15mins.

And in near future, for ordering a new Flute( with thumb hole ) visit a maker in person or courier your existing thumb hole Flute to the maker.

Because even a slight deviation from the natural thumb position may lead to muscle pain in a period of time and more importantly the notes may start sounding sharp/flat because thumb is naturally trying to rest on the given thumb hole while compromising the blowing angle.

My views:

Hi,

Arjun here, but without a divine bow (a complete Flute set) 😀

As Iam not a professional, iam not recognising a need of a Flute set, at present.

But still i enhanced my collection, and in addition to my E bass, iam having a higher(lengthwise) Bass Flute , a lower(lengthwise) Bass Flute and a middle Flute.

From these flutes of varied lengths, other than my regular practice, once in a week, i pick one flute to practice 1.5-2hr of Alankar/Palta.

Over a period of time, I noticed,

1. The practice on a Higher Flute has yielded better holding, reachability and poster ON E BASS.

2. The practice on Lower and middle Flutes has yielded improved playability of komal Swars and Meends ON E BASS.

Regards

Arjun

Hi

First of all thanks for initiating this.

I believe you are asking about pitch and speed changing tool. Thanks to Ashwin Sir to introducing to us such a great tool. I had just started learning flute. Yet other than my practice, very often i try to find the SWARS and harkatein from the great Maestros performances with the help of this tool ( slowing it down ). Its ” Chrome extension TRANSPOSE ”