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Yep it certainly is! I had such a brilliant and interesting response from my last post that I thought I'd post again

The questionnaire is short and quick to fill in, so please feel free to give it a go if you have a spare 3 minutes – your feedback is greatly appreciated!

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Hey Everyone! I'm a final year Product Design student studying at Brunel University in West London. For my dissertation project I've been investigating how temperature affects the pitch of a flute and have now been developing methods to indicate the temperature of the flute to the flautist. I'm a ke...

Hi! I'm trying to find some information on the temperature that a flute will play an A=440 in tune at. As far as I can tell ISO:16 specifies A=440 Hz at 20ºC, but surely when playing the flute would be warmer than this due to the players breath...... I read about a thermal equilibrium the flute reac...

Yes it was - the main focus of my study is to investigate how temperature effects the pitch of a flute, but at the moment I'm trying to keep the topic as broad as possible to see if there are any other improvements that can be made to the preparation process or if theres any performance practices I'...

Certainly, I'll see what I can do once I have collated all my research

Also, a big thank you to anyone who has completed the survey – you help is greatly appreciated!!!

Hi! I'm a University student from London who's dissertation topic is to investigate the performance of a flute and how this can be improved. I'm a keen flautist myself so it is a topic of interest to me. I've created an online survey which I need as many flautists as possible to complete for my init...