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Thread #115933   Message #2485617
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
05-Nov-08 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: The Original Tonette (Or Voice Flute)
Subject: RE: The Original Tonette (Or Voice Flute)
It's basically the same thing

Pretty much, although it features a decorative bell in suggestion of a open end. I'm treating it as a plastic gemshorn, but the tone is pretty severe. It also has a plungeable mouthpiece by which one may drop the entire instrument down to D; very useful, probably like those plungers on your ocarina page. Love the metal ones by the way; there was one on sale in an antique shop in Barnard Castle a couple of years back but I was broke at the time and had to pass.

I'll send you some pics when I get sorted.