Flute services

• Student flutes

  • Playing condition repairs typically include pad replacement, “SSR” (“Seat, Silence, & Regulate”: seating individual key pads over their toneholes to seal properly, replacing key bumper corks & felts to silence key clacks as needed, and regulating connections between keys), head cork replacement, and repadding (full disassembly, cleaning, polishing, replacement of pads and key corks/felts, and adjustment to proper playing condition. Cleaning & polishing can be added to playing condition repairs of student flutes in order to improve their cosmetic appearance.

• Intermediate Flutes

  • Playing condition repairs include the above, as well as a Clean, Oil, and Adjust service (COA), which includes “SSR” plus: replace headcork; fully disassemble, clean, & polish body and keys as practical; additional charges apply for pad replacement and other excess labor required (dent work, tenon fitting, straightening & soldering posts & ribs, etc).

• Professional and handmade flutes

  • Minor repairs are performed as appropriate, but the standard “annual” (give or take, depending on use) playing condition service is the COA.

  • Full mechanical overhauls can be performed with a variety of pad options - traditional felt (including factory felt pads for Sankyo and Muramatsu flutes), Schmidt gold, Muramatsu MA (“Lotus”), and Straubinger.