Does anyone have any wooden headjoint, which didn't come with your flute?

I play an old system flute and my wooden headjoint has had it. Needing a new one, but I don't where to get these.

I tried a Guo flute headjoint, but these don't fit. None of the flute centre heads fit and the shop tell me its because my flute is too old.

My headjoint is a double tube - the inner one is 19mm, and the outer tube is 25mm.

Is there an affordable custom wooden headjoint maker who could make something like this?

thanks...thats a good place to start!

Affordable means I can afford it. I'll get looking.....!

Try contacting this guy - http://template.webbyman.net/candelaria/theproduct.html . Excellent headjoints, I think they start at $300+ and can be silver with wood lip, etc.

I have a DiZhao wooden headjoint. Mine has a silver end to fit the tennon of my Muramatsu EX-III.
I was very lucky, because I just experimented both together and they just fit! No adjustments needed.

I don't know if Mr.DiZhao makes the headjoint you need, but I think it's another option for you to try. I'm very happy with mine.

Howel Roberts makes some beautiful wooden headjoints. I think the Flute Center of New York used to sell them.


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From waht you say your flute almost certainly has a conical body with a parallel bore head. The modern Boehm flutes have cylindrical body & tapered head. This means that even if you did find something that would fit it is 110% certain that combination would never play in tune. You will need to find a maker to produce a suitable head or keep looking on that well known internet auction site for one.

I hate this website. Everything I write, hangs, and then gets lost when I refresh.

Thanks. The Howell flutes are out of my league. I'm only Grade 8 standard and not conservatory standard!

Thanks for the post - yes I've given up trying to find a flute headjoint (off the rack) to fit. The intonation is worse at the third octave and I don't think it's possible unless I pay a lot.

In any case, I've decided to get a baroque traverso, so I'll get rid of my keyed flutes.

I agree with contra448 that you will not be able to find a suitable replacement that will work and play in tune. In your original posting you said your headjoint has "had it". Could you elaborate - is it broken, cracked, or what? I would bet that your wood headjoint has a metal liner inside it - is that correct? Even if the wood is badly cracked, it CAN still be repaired.

Thanks.

The metal liner of the headjoint is cracked - it goes all the way up.

I've been told that it's not worth repairing and I should just get a new one.

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Well I've settled on a baroque traverso. I decided to get a student traverso from Aulos in the meantime.

I realise (now) that my broken flute was almost baroque sounding - sweet, and subtle, with warm colour throughout, but without the delicate shading.

The Aulos plastic Stanesby is really good, but I'm failing the 3rd octave F/Fsharp. The instructions do say that is very difficult to do, but I'm surprised it's really this difficult.

When I tried a number of Rottenburgh and Kirst models, there was no problem with the 3rd octave F/Fsharp, but these were much more expensive.

Does anyone else play baroque traverso have any ways around this?

The prices of wooden headjoints are really high. I guess they are specialist equipment. I don't think it's worthwhile contaminating a new headjoint with an average old flute, so I'm going to start from scratch.

Thanks.