Talk:Hyperbass flute

Fingering etc.
Does the instrument actually have keys and can play a scale? I am just wondering if we're stretching the definition of flute by calling this instrument the largest flute, unless it can sustain more than a single pitch. --Myke Cuthbert 06:19, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I guess only Roberto Fabbriciani knows. You could try emailing him; I emailed him once and he wrote back saying that he was busy but that he'd put more up about the instrument "soon."  Badagnani 06:23, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

hyper-bass spelling
A google search for the term hyper-base flute exclusing the two phrases used on wikipedia to describe it (on this page and at Western concert flute brings up 8 results on Google.

The same search with the phrase hyperbase flute instead provides 423 results. 

For this reason I am removing the text (sometimes spelled hyper-bass flute) from the article. -- Flutefluteflute Talk Contributions 16:55, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Better Photo
The photograph here is actually a picture of some guy near some pipe (I assume it is the instrument). Hey, let's have a photo of the actual instrument. Gingermint (talk) 07:25, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I've removed most of the "promotional" tone of the text, but that photo still bugs me.  BoundaryRider (talk) 00:57, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Notability
Given it is more of a modern art installation than an actual instrument, has no historical repertoire, does not appear in any current manufacturer catalogues, and only two documented instruments exist in the world, I think the opening paragraph should say that it is (at best) a novelty instrument like the subcontrabass tuba or the contrabass trumpet, rather than give the impression it is a regular member of the flute family. Jon (talk) 21:32, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It seems there is a small and growing corpus of works written specifically for it, and recordings have been released by Peter Sheridan, not just by Fabbriciani (We're replacing the gutters on our house soon, so I might save some of the downpipes and have a go at making one...) — Jon (talk) 02:23, 24 November 2022 (UTC)