Hogenhuisflutes




	For all your low flutes at budget prices Flutes descending from 196 Hz (altoflute) down to 33 Hz (subcontrabassflute, 5.30 m.) All these flutes are also available with a *recorder fipple* About low flutes: Low flutes have always been a difficult matter. During the Renaissance the altoflute, then called Bassus, was the longest instrument available. Tone production was difficult. Only a soft sweet sound was possible. During the Baroque era there seem to be made some bassflutes. The famous Concertos by Boismortier presumably needed this instrument as 5th flute. The idea was not adapted generally, probably because the flute was too modest. Theobald Boehm seems to have made a metal bassflute of which he was rather satisfied. Yet it took until the 20th century that bassflutes and lower flutes had a lift-off. Still, low flutes in choirs generally are not completely satisfactory. As a firm bass one simply needs more power as well as ease in playing. To make low flutes with a firm bottom register at a low price experiments have been done since 1985 with PVC flutes, flutechoir “De Waldsang”, Holland being the test area. The results have been very satisfactory. A firm bass section has it's effects on the whole sound. It improves tuning too. The special qualities of the flutes, their dark, warm and full sound, have also attracted soloplayers. The fact that the third octave is sometimes a bit sacrificed to improve low notes is no big deal to them. Especially jazz players like the bass- and the contrabassflute. Replacing the headpiece of the flutes by a “fipple” easily transforms the flutes into recorders. If you want a flute which gives you the feeling to rest in an armchair, rather than to balance on a rope, you are at the right address.

For all your low flutes at budget prices

Flutes descending from 196 Hz (altoflute) down to 33 Hz (subcontrabassflute, 5.30 m.)
All these flutes are also available with a recorder fipple

About low flutes:

flutechoir "De Wâldsang"; Jelle Hogenhuis, conductor; Jean-Louis Beaumadier, piccolo

Low flutes have always been a difficult matter. During the Renaissance the altoflute, then called Bassus, was the longest instrument available. Tone production was difficult. Only a soft sweet sound was possible.
During the Baroque era there seem to be made some bassflutes. The famous Concertos by Boismortier presumably needed this instrument as 5th flute. The idea was not adapted generally, probably because the flute was too modest.
Theobald Boehm seems to have made a metal bassflute of which he was rather satisfied. Yet it took until the 20th century that bassflutes and lower flutes had a lift-off.
Still, low flutes in choirs generally are not completely satisfactory. As a firm bass one simply needs more power as well as ease in playing.

To make low flutes with a firm bottom register at a low price experiments have been done since 1985 with PVC flutes, flutechoir “De Waldsang”, Holland being the test area. The results have been very satisfactory. A firm bass section has it's effects on the whole sound. It improves tuning too.

The special qualities of the flutes, their dark, warm and full sound, have also attracted soloplayers. The fact that the third octave is sometimes a bit sacrificed to improve low notes is no big deal to them. Especially jazz players like the bass- and the contrabassflute.
Replacing the headpiece of the flutes by a “fipple” easily transforms the flutes into recorders.

If you want a flute which gives you the feeling to rest in an armchair, rather than to balance on a rope, you are at the right address.