h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have a baroque flute. I was given it by a friend in Colodrado who knew i played flute and she had it and felt it was going to waste as she couldn't play. It had been her grandfathers from Germany. When I recieved it, it was in a bad state with a long split down the head peice due to drying out in the high mountain air. We were able to get it repaired and get hold of an orgianal victorian flute tutor book with a copy of the fingering system in it.

I have been told that the fingering system is noticably like an obes', the finger system is known as the 8 key system but my flute actually has 11 keys.

Anyway it does have a nice soft tone compared to the metal flutes but does strain on higher notes and therefore lends itself to irish folk and baroque stuff.

The other unusal item is it goes down to the b below middle c.

Yes - that is an unusually deep register! I like the tone of a wooden flute .... not at all shrill. I suppose the fingering being like an oboe makes sense ... all from the same family, with the "break" at the octave, inlike the clarinet.