Nuvo flute

[zummerzet_lou]

I recently bought one of these for my daughter, and searched everywhere for some review but couldn't find any. So this is my attempt at providing a review for anyone else that is my situation.

My daughter is 6 years old, and desperate to learn to play flute. I bought her a fife, but she didn't play it as got frustrated with not being able to produce a note, and she didn't want to start on a recorder as it wasn't a flute (sorry - she's a bit stubborn, no idea where she gets that from).

So, I happened across seeing the nuvo flute. and their new J flute being advertised.
http://www.nuvo-instrumental.com/index. ... ces/photos

I paid $159 NZD for the Jflute (a fraction of the cost of a metal flute). We had a play in the shop, and it takes a little bit of experimentation to find the "talking" point for the breath. However, able to get quite a nice sounding note out of it (compared to a recorder).

The beauty of this flute is that it has a changeable mouthpiece - a traditional lip-plate one, and also one with a recorder type mouth piece. This means for little ones they can immediately play notes.

1 week later, and she's still practising hard.
Good stuff:
She can play notes, recorder mouth piece means she is getting fraustrated.
Has rubberised area for hand/thumb rests so great for getting postion correct straight away.
It's plastic - so being dropped, banged etc isn't the end of the world.

Bad stuff: The removable keys for "" and "g" fingers keep coming unclipped so keep having to put these back on.
Notes are a little hit and miss with the mouth piece - sometimes hit the lower octave, but easy to hit upper one.

[evrmre]

Just a thought... Some reasonable brand flutes sell secondhand over here (on trademe) for reasonable money, if it gets too frustrating. Just make sure someone who plays well can field test before paying for it...