Dear all!!!

If you looking for a Colorful flute and piccolo, here is a RIGHT place to you!!!

How do you think about colorful flute?

looks like a piece of junk

Calling it a piece of junk is probably a compliment.

They are only a toy that not even a 3 year old should touch. I agree, a piece of junk.

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Ah.. I see now. I just looked at his profile. He is not referring to the colored metal flutes that show up on eBay. But really... he must not be getting that much business right now if he has to advertise on a flute forum.

Personally I think there kinda ugly. Not very professional looking anyway.

I can't even find the picture you guys are talking about--but I agree....InstrumentCrazy I like your new picture.

Actually, I think that if you haven't tried one of these they may seem to be junk from the photos. It may be that looks aren't everything and that it is possible to make a colorful flute that plays well. Their feel is different but we can get confused between the feel/texture and the sounds that our flutes are producing. Not for me but if you see one at a flute fest, I'd say to at least check them out and investigate the advantages.
http://www.gflute.com/en2/index.php/products/grenaditte-c-flute
http://www.gflute.com/en2/index.php/products-advantages

karinabina7: Thanks!

I tried their Ceramic Metallic headjoint before, made by Guo's flute factory in Taiwan, their flutes could be the future of flute making, who knows.

Original colour was dark deep blue or light black, now they try colouring their flutes maybe. It's easy, all you have to do is to add colour into it, because they are ceramic materials, added with rare earth and metal powder I think. Then molded into shape and then bake. You can make any EH shape as you like.

Its headjoints that I tried are very light! The flutes are beatiful and futuristic.

But I personally didn't like their headjoints, because they sounded too crispy and thin, just like a dried thin wooden headjoint or bamboo headjoint. But that is just my own feeling.

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Hi Mr.Guo, I think colour flutes are ugly, and dark blue or black are horrible. Maybe wooden color or golden color or silvery would look better. :)

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If you add more metal powder into the headjoint and also make it thicker, then I think the sound will sound more solid.

Thank you guys for all of your comments and suggestion!!

If these things were any good, you would not need to paint them. Please do not flatter yourself by thanking us for suggestions. Most of the suggestions that can be made are unprintable. For the benefit of the decent people on this forum, I will limit myself to "take a long walk on a short pier".

If these things were any good, you would not need to paint them. Please do not flatter yourself by thanking us for suggestions. Most of the suggestions that can be made are unprintable. For the benefit of the decent people on this forum, I will limit myself to "take a long walk on a short pier".

You may indeed need to take a long walk on a short pier.

Exceptionally rude posts like yours on a public forum are really unpleasant reading.

It can't be helpful for this forum to have vitriol like yours to poison others.

Furthermore, don't presume to speak on behalf of others.

Back on topic, I don't know nor have I ever seen these flutes. I'm happy to see flutes of any shape or size on the market. They are better than say, seeing another MP3 player released. The Grenadillo one looks lovely. I wish there were sound samples or places to test drive these.

All of this aside, synthetics are the future. But only if they are priced like synthetics. To be honest, it should be closer to $500-$1000, and at that price, it would chew a large chunk out of the competition. But at nearly $2500, it's a non-issue.

In short, the flutes are marked up more than twice what they should cost.

I think I owe the poster an apology. I didn't realize these flutes were made by Guo. I respect their instruments and think it is great they make the composite flutes, and maybe young people will like a pink flute. But this forum isn't the place to hawk them as most of us will look at them and think they are junk because of the color.

chrismontez: Yeah, because there were so many junk flutes lacquer-painted with colour to attract buyers on ebay. When I saw the pink flute I too thought it's one of those junks too, until I clicked his name and saw Guo's flute. Mr.Guo is a very nice humble old man devoted his life to flute making and future composite flute making, my first teacher was a Taiwanese studied flute in Paris and she introduced me to Mr.Guo and tried his ceramic metal headjoints.

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If we type "Grenaditte Flute" on youtube, there are some Guo Grenaditte Flute clips. Here are some of them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG3EnsNE85I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EHH34B6YiM

This is the same headjoint I tried before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I60j4EhC60Q