The other reason I didn't want to give up

Savage


Savage (detail)


Savage (detail)

Really, I'd gotten most of the practice I need pretty early, but I just didn't want to give up on a piece of bamboo that pretty, no matter how unsuited it really was to music. spazzkat says Savage makes a pretty good October flute, in that he has that kind of leaf-fall/oncroaching-winter sound. For seven notes and accidents in-between, I think he's got a point.

Third-octave fingerings, for the record, don't give him a second octave. I can't even find even one that gives him a proper high E, even eclectics using too many holes. Dammit.