5/23/2023 0 Comments Miyazawa flute serial numbers![]() ![]() This is the key-on-key quartertone system, and really makes a difference to how the instrument feels when you play. The first thing you will notice about Levit’s new flute is that the Kingma System means that there are holes where there are not normally any holes. Levit began to develop his own masterpiece. The flutes was made with a different set of tooling which is why they look different from Brannen-Cooper flutes (notably the main differences are the key cups which do not have the French pointer-key arms). These flutes were cheaper, drawn tone-hole version of Brannen Coopers. Levit bought Bickford Brannen’s old tools, previously used to make the Oston-Brannen flutes. Whilst working for Brannen Brothers, Levit became good friends with Eva Kingma, the entrepreneur of key-on-key quartertone flutes. Levit initially began his flute-making career with Powell flutes, and then moved to Brannen- Cooper. ![]() That was until the launch of Levit’s new flute. A quarter tone Brannen flute will cost in the region of £30,000 and Sankyo will cost nearly as much. The main problem with all of these instruments is that they are simply quite expensive. Miyazawa also bought the patent license for Kingma’s key-on-key mechanism, but never made one. There are already quite a few quarter tone instruments on the market, most notably by Brannen-Cooper and Sankyo.
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