Kingma

Redesigned in 2011 with the help of Bickford Brannen, Eva Kingma redesigned her alto flutes, creating a light and elegant mechanism. The keys feature open holes, one of the only alto flutes of its kind. This allows for different timbral affects and fingerings, opening a whole new range of repertoire for the alto flutist.

The body and headjoint of the flute are solid silver with soldered tone holes, and padded with Straubinger pads. To limit the weight, silver-plating is used for the mechanism.

Kingma & Brannen Open Hole Alto flute #170 has pointed arms, a B footjoint, and both straight and curved headjoints.

Please inquire further for availability.

The Contrabass Flute, a full two octaves lower than the C-flute, is the ‘Gentle Giant’ of the flute family. It’s warm tone may seem not loud at first hearing, but carries in an impressive way. And it is with much pleasure that we introduce this wonderful instrument to you.

A Contrabass flute is silverplated and is tuned at the scale A=442Hz. The standard model Contrabass flute has a B footjoint. A custom made flightcase and a beautiful carbon fibre stand are delivered with each instrument. A Wiseman case is available for an extra price. Even on this big instrument the option of trill-keys is available!

Please inquire further for pricing and availability. Trials are in-store only and by appointment. Please call us at 972-985-2662 for details.

The sterling silver Matusi headjoint, fitted with a vibrating membrane operated by a key, is an invention of Matthias Ziegler and worked out by Eva Kingma, an innovative flutemaker from The Netherlands. Created in Kingma's workshop by David Kerkhof, Matusi headjoints allow a quick switch between a dark, pure flute sound and a buzzing tone, useful for the increasing number of modern compositions that use this type of buzzing tone, many written for Gudrun Hinze, especially, and her flute quintet.

The Matusi sound is audible here, in this transcription for flute quintet of Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre.