{"product_id":"hippy-ceramic-flute","title":"Reliable Brothers Ceramic Flute, G","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tone on this is genuinely impressive. Once you find the sweet spot on the embouchure the thing comes alive, with tons of volume and a big, bright, wide voice. That is not what most people expect from a ceramic flute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bore is cylindrical, which brings the usual consequence of a slightly flat upper octave that wants lipping up. In practice it plays up to the second octave D; the second octave E, the equivalent of the B on a D flute, is hard to get to speak and we could not coax it out reliably here. Everything below that is a pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA conversation piece, certainly, but a real performance instrument as well for anyone happy to manage the top of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReliable Brothers were a California ceramic flute workshop of the 1960s and 70s who published their own instruction book for the instrument, Ceramic Flute, Book No. 1, G Flute, which is why G is the pitch these turn up in. Beyond an example held in the Betty Austin Hensley collection at the Spencer Museum of Art, the makers are almost entirely unrecorded, and we have never had one through the shop before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irish Flute Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48319730352354,"sku":"VvSWK7z2-PAOLf9f2","price":94.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2140\/2331\/files\/1Q7A9698.jpg?v=1788543304","url":"https:\/\/www.irishflutestore.com\/products\/hippy-ceramic-flute","provider":"Irish Flute Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}