Maker
Altus Flutes
Japanese flute maker
Altus Flutes is a Japanese flute maker offering professional handmade flutes, headjoints, and flute-family models.
Models
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Altus 1207
Flute · Japan
The Altus 1207 is a handmade professional concert flute with a sterling silver (.925) headjoint, body, and mechanism and drawn tone holes. It belongs to Altus's numbered handmade line, in which higher model numbers indicate higher silver content or more advanced construction. The flute can be ordered with offset or inline G, open- or closed-hole keys, and a B or C foot.
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Altus 1807
Flute · Japan
The Altus 1807, also sold as the ALII, is a handmade professional concert flute built from Altus's proprietary Altus Silver (.946) alloy, with a seamed headjoint, body, and footjoint, a sterling silver mechanism, and soldered tone holes. The Altus Silver alloy and seamed tube construction were developed to pursue the tone of old French flutes. It can be ordered with offset or inline G, open- or closed-hole keys, and a B or C foot.
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Altus 1507
Flute · Japan
The Altus 1507 is a handmade professional concert flute with a Britannia silver (.958) headjoint, body, and footjoint, a sterling silver lip-plate and riser, and soldered tone holes. It belongs to Altus's numbered handmade line, where higher model numbers indicate higher silver content or more advanced construction. The flute can be ordered with offset or inline G, open- or closed-hole keys, and a B or C foot.
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Altus 1307
Flute · Japan
The Altus 1307 is a handmade professional concert flute with a Britannia silver (.958) headjoint, body, and footjoint, a sterling silver lip-plate and riser, and drawn tone holes. It belongs to Altus's numbered handmade line, in which higher model numbers indicate higher silver content or more advanced construction. The flute can be ordered with offset or inline G, open- or closed-hole keys, and a B or C foot.
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Altus 1407
Flute · Japan
The Altus 1407 is a handmade professional concert flute made of sterling silver (.925) throughout, with soldered tone holes. It belongs to Altus's numbered handmade line, where higher model numbers indicate higher silver content or more advanced construction; the 1407 shares the sterling silver of the 1207 but uses more labor-intensive soldered tone holes. It can be ordered with offset or inline G, open- or closed-hole keys, and a B or C foot.
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Altus 1707
Flute · Japan
The Altus 1707, also sold as the PSII, is a handmade professional concert flute with a pure silver (.997) headjoint, body, and footjoint, a sterling silver lip-plate and riser, a silver mechanism, and soldered tone holes. Altus forms its pure silver tubing using powder metallurgy because the metal is otherwise too soft for conventional flute making. It can be ordered with offset or inline G, open- or closed-hole keys, and a B or C foot.
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Categories
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Flutes
Concert flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes, piccolo families, flute makers, and related variants.
Representative model
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Altus 1407
Flute · Japan
The Altus 1407 is a handmade professional concert flute made of sterling silver (.925) throughout, with soldered tone holes. It belongs to Altus's numbered handmade line, where higher model numbers indicate higher silver content or more advanced construction; the 1407 shares the sterling silver of the 1207 but uses more labor-intensive soldered tone holes. It can be ordered with offset or inline G, open- or closed-hole keys, and a B or C foot.