Dave Copley’s not interested. It is a constant source of shock to me that this thing I have had to do my whole life — flipping parity — literally seems to make righties’ brains short-circuit. I have to admit, I think of Kumail Nanjiani talking about how it’s not that hard to identify with a character in a movie that doesn’t look like you and then says, “I’ve been doing it my whole life.” Preach.
I think I may have little choice but to put the Copley away and just start over again with the Ormiston. As beautifully as the Copley plays, I want a fully-keyed flute, and the Ormiston does play well, just unfamiliarly. I’m sure as hell not consigning it at this point. And I may have to do the Apoxie Sculpt thing to it now that I know I’m keeping it and making myself work with it. I’ve got a better open C# on it too, so there’s that.
The main downside is that it’s made of wood and not delrin, which I’m not that pleased about. There’s a romance to wood, but there’s also a “holy shit I live on the East Coast of the US and the humidity will suck the water right out of your pores” fear with wood as well.
I’m glad the piano has been so rewarding lately. I’ve been off the flute for so long that I can’t even get into the second octave anymore, and this back-and-forth BS with the foot has drained a lot of my enthusiasm. I like instruments that you just sit down at and they work, instead of these damned klugey things that you have to argue with all the time with a million moving parts that do nothing better than break or misbehave. I had to fight like mad to get the foot keys to not stick shut!