Blog | David Murray Flute Repairs

The finished articles!
Reaming out the socket of the tenon cap.
Roughing out the grease pot.
Turning the piece true

23Nov '18 0

Making things.

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Occasionally there are some more unusual jobs that crop up. So I get to spend some time at the lathe or some filing or hammering or just plain wondering how to make something. So with this in mind, I thought I’d post up some of the things I’ve made. First up, I was asked to […]

14Apr '18 0

Windchimes!

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I inherited a box of copper pipe offcuts, left-overs from a job by a good friend of mine. I’d dabbled with chimes and chime making before, some years back with a few bits of fifteen millimetre copper water pipe. I was quite surprised at how well they sounded and dug a little deeper into the […]

08Feb '18 0

All this moving about!

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It’s been a while… Over a year in fact!! Where does the time go??? Sadly, the work at the hall never got finished and RG Workshops from whom I was taking a little piece of space from have unfortunately been left with no option to give up the hall as there has been no movement […]

28Sep '16 2

Aaaaannnnnnd we’re on the move again.

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I’d mentioned a month or so ago that Andy was closing the doors and retiring from the repairing business (for the meantime….?) and that I was going to be moving to a new home both for the family and for DMFR. Well the family part is now done, although there are still boxes to be […]

20Aug '16 1

All change again, almost..

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As you were all aware, last year I’d moved from the west coast over to the east to work with and learn from Andrew May in Edinburgh. Andrew is a highly regarded double reed specialist so an opportunity to work with him and learn a bit about the esoteric world of double reeds as well […]