How to Customise Your Flute
Embouchure
There are 3 different embouchure hole styles available.
Rounded Rectangle
Rounded rectangle embouchure holes are known for their strong, open, and powerful response. They are often regarded as easy to play and are typically familiar to those who play modern metal Boehm flutes.
This embouchure style tends to produce the most projection and brightness.
Ellipse
Ellipse embouchure holes tend to produce a slightly darker, softer, and more focused tonal character. These embouchure holes are common on traditional Irish flutes and reflect an older design approach.
They favour a dark sound and tonal texture over sheer volume.
Two Semi Circle
“Two Semi Circle” embouchure holes function as an intermediary between the former styles, blending elements of both designs.
This embouchure style offers a balanced response with a controlled and focused playing feel.
All PassionFlute embouchures are designed to be free-blowing and easy to play.
Finishes
PassionFlute instruments are available in a range of finishes based on currently available glazes, along with the distinctive Strawfire finish.
Glaze Finishes
Glazed finishes offer rich colour, depth, and surface character unique to each instrument. Due to the nature of ceramic firing, subtle variations in tone, texture, and pattern are a natural and celebrated part of the process.
Each flute develops its own individual visual character.
Strawfire Finish
Strawfire is a distinctive finishing process in which the instrument is wrapped in straw and fired, allowing natural flame patterns and colours to develop across the ceramic surface.
No two Strawfire instruments are ever identical.
As with all fired finishes, the final appearance will vary organically, contributing to the uniqueness of each flute.
If you have seen a finish on another PassionFlute instrument or have a specific colour preference in mind, you are welcome to get in touch. Custom variations can often be arranged.
Strawfire Finish Consideration
As the Strawfire finish incorporates a lacquer-based seal, players with known sensitivities to lacquer, varnish, or oil-based products may wish to select a glazed finish instead.
Made to Order
All custom PassionFlute instruments are individually made to order and therefore require a short waiting period while your flute is crafted.