Discover your new sound with our symphonic mopane wood flute headjoint. Manufactured with the greatest care, they are designed to offer you an incomparable playing experience, with unparalleled power and sound projection, all with the focus timbre of mopane wood.
The special design of our unique lip plate allows for instant adaptation of your metal headjoint to our wooden headjoint. The different radius of our lip plate minimize air resistance and provide excellent comfort for the chin.
Our embouchure is manufactured respecting the different angles developed by master maker Albert Cooper. This facilitates sound projection and tonging, while allowing the production of the wide range of timbres typical of the flute.
Lavoie professional headjoints are made from knot-free pieces of wood that have been dried for over 5 years. The rings and post are made of sterling silver, ensuring durability and elegance.
All symphonic headjoints come with a heavy crown and heavy stopper, which ensure a powerful sound with projection similar to that of a silver or gold head, without altering the warmth of a wooden flute. You can also transform the tone of your flute by changing your heavy stopper/crown system* for our lightweight system. This allows for a very warm sound typical of wooden flutes, ideal for a more discreet music repertoire.
It is strongly recommended that you purchase our protection and maintenance kit**. This will allow you to keep your headjoint in good condition for decades. The protection and maintenance set consists of a case, an oiling stick, a cap adjustment stick, a wiping stick and a cleaning wipe.
*See our stopper/crown systems ** See our maintenance package *** See the list of dimensions of the most popular flute tenons.
Technical Specifications:
- Materials: Mopane (Colophospermum mopanie) dried for more than 5 years
- Rings and Tenon: Sterling silver
- Crown/stopper Options: Wood or silver-plated brass
- Embouchure and lip plate optimized for performance
Advantages:
- Ease of tonguing
- Powerful and warm sound
- Exceptional projection
- Lip plate allowing prolonged playing comfort
- Competitive price
Symphonic Flute Headjoint in Mopane
Perfect tenon fit is crucial for optimal resonance. Although transverse flutes have a similar inside diameter (19mm), the thickness of the tube varies. The Lavoie head tenons are perfect for flutes with tenons with an external diameter of 19.7 mm***. Your technician can easily adjust the post if necessary. If the diameter of your flute is larger, you can simply add metallic adhesive paper** to the tenon of the head. If you cannot consult a technician and the diameter of your flute is too small, we can have the tenon adjusted for your specific model by a specialist technician at an additional cost.