This is the mouthpiece and the head joint comes off, and these are the keys and you put you fingers on just some of them and this one goes down to a C, some of the flutes go down to a B but as you can see this one goes to just middle C. And these are the trill keys here and they open the vents up here, which trills some…used for some notes to trill. That’s the thumb key there. This is a little stopper at the top, the cork, which tunes the flute if you need to make it sharper or flatter. Flutes are normally made of silver really. Some of gold. My flute’s silver…

I just like the sound of silver. Platinum’s heavy and feels funny to me, it doesn’t feel right, it just feels very different. I think gold looks funny and is also very heavy. And silver’s just got a lightness about it that I like. I don’t mind tin flutes, some tin flutes are very nice.