Talk:Hyperbass flute

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[edit] 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)

[edit] Sources

I'm curious about the sources used for this article. I haven't found much of anything else about this instrument on the web. It certainly raises many unanswered questions: How many hyperbass flutes exist? Who made them (or it)? What does it actually look like? (The linked picture doesn't show much.) Presumably whatever source was used for this article doesn't answer these questions, or the answers would be here; but anyway it'd be nice to know where the information we do have came from. -- Rsholmes 22:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

There are 3 photos of it on Fabbriciani's site, only one of which is downloadable. Be careful, though--his photo page might crash your computer. I've just emailed him again to ask for more photos. I think the one he plays is the only one. He emailed me a while back promising more info soon but never followed up. Badagnani 23:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)