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Flutemaking Photo Gallery
"WITH OUR RICH HISTORY OF INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION, ALONG WITH OVER 350 YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL FLUTEMAKING EXPERIENCE HELD BY OUR CURRENT STAFF OF FLUTEMAKERS, WE ARE PROUD OF THE WORK THAT GOES INTO EACH AND EVERY INSTRUMENT WE MAKE. OUR FLUTEMAKERS DEDICATE THEIR CAREERS TO PRODUCING HANDMADE INSTRUMENTS OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER, ONE AT A TIME WITH ABSOLUTE CARE. AS SUCH, EACH OF OUR INSTRUMENTS IS A WORK OF ART AND A HIGH PERFORMANCE MACHINE, RESULTING FROM THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF PRECISION BUILDING IMAGINABLE."
 Parts Department - Punching key cups out of 14K Rose gold flat stock |  Casting Department - Attaching wax parts to a casting tree |  Casting Department - Pouring plaster over wax casting tree in a flask |
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 Casting Department |  Casting Department - Pouring sterling silver casting grain into the crucible |  Casting Department - Heating silver casting grain in the crucible until it reaches a liquid state |
 Casting Department - Cutting sterling silver parts off the casting tree |  Bodymaking Department - Gold soldering of sterling silver toneholes on a 14K Rose gold body |  Bodymaking Department - Trimming the footjoint rings to their final length |
 Stringing Department - 14K Rose gold parts for an all gold flute |  Stringing Department - Cleaning up a part with a wheel |  Stringing Department - Soldering a spring catch |
 Stringing Department - Soldering the F kicker onto mechanism tubing |  Stringing Department - Individualized fitting of keys onto a body |  Finishing Department - Reaming inside diameter of the mechanism tubing |
 Finishing Department - Trimming a trill cork |  Finishing Department - |  Finishing Department - Leveling the trill pads with an alcohol lamp |
 Finishing Department - Final buffing of a silver body tube following peer inspection |  Finishing Department - Final buffing of a silver body tube following peer inspection |  Headjoint Department - Refining the shape of the riser |
 Headjoint Department - One of several gages used to check the shape and angle of the embouchure hole |  Headjoint Department - Soldering gold crowns for the headjoint |  Headjoint Department - Fitting the riser to the tube |
 Tools of the trade - Grinding wheels |  Tools of the trade - An assortment of hand tools used in stringing |
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