Assembling your Flute
Your Flute has 3 parts: The Headjoint, The Body and The Footjoint.
When assembling your flute, it is important to assemble the joints together in the correct way and never force the joints together. We believe that careful attention in assembling, and disassembling can reduce the damage/wear and tear that an instrument suffers thereby reducing service costs.
Important to remember:
- Never wash your flute with
- Don’t apply grease or oil or any other type of lubrication on the joints thinking that it will ease the Doing so is messy and doesn’t help the situation.
- Always be gentle while handling the flute. Although it is made of metal, it is quite delicate, keys can be easily bent, and any knock will disrupt the regulation of the
Now onto the assembly
1. Before we put the flute together, we need to make sure the joints are clean, wiping them with a microfibre cloth inside and outside will ensure that the joints ease together without any
2. Take out the headjoint and the body.
It is important avoid holding the keys. Hold the body at the top where there are no keys (the tenon).
3. Gently insert the head joint into the body and twist the two together. (very little force should be applied, if you are finding it to be stiff, wipe the joint over with the microfibre cloth and try)
4. Once you have that done that it’s time to put on the foot joint. Take the foot joint out of the case and hold at the bottom where there are no keys.
5. Keeping hold of the body in the same place where there are no keys (The tenon) The footjoint slips on to the body of the flute by twisting the two joints gently together.
(It is important to keep the joints parallel as you put them together, any angle other than straight can cause damage)
Lining up the parts.
6. The hole in the lip plate should line up the first key on the
7. The foot joint should but slightly to the right of lining up with the body keys
