A little care and patience at first will ensure your flute serves you well for many years. Long playing sessions early in the life of the flute are likely to cause serious harm, resulting in problems with swelling and cracking. It’s very tempting when you first receive your flute to sit down and play it for a couple of hours, but this is the worst possible thing you can do for the instrument. There can be a slight variation to these times eg an extra ten or fifteen minutes occasionally won’t hurt the flute, but done consecutively day after day it has the ability to harm the instrument irreparably. It will take up an hour a day for the first week and then you can increase the playing time by ten minutes per day until it reaches your maximum playing time. Although your flute has had quite a lot of playing during its making, it still should be played in carefully.
This is dependent on the amount of playing that the flute gets and the climatic conditions it is kept and played in and therefore it is vital that the acclimatisation process is a gradual one. The timber the flute is made from is dried in a special dehumidified room to optimum moisture content although this won’t be the final moisture content of the flute. Too much playing too early in the life of the flute can result in serious swelling around the flute joints, almost certainly changing the dimensions of the bore and altering the flute’s playing characteristics for ever. If it isn’t done correctly the flute can be seriously damaged and never recover from the problems that overplaying have brought about. Playing in is an extremely important part of the process to ensure the flute’s longevity and can’t be emphasised enough.
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