Gemeinhardt 3OSHB Flute Gold Lip Plate

The 3OSHB (that’s Three-Oh-S-H-B, not Thirty-S-H-B!) offers the specifications most teachers recommend for a studentready to purchase their first step-up flute. With open holes, referred to as a French key mechanism, and a B footjoint,the model 3OSHB flute is the most popular step-up flute offered today. The B footjoint creates a longer tube allowing agreater resonance in the flute, as well as providing advancing flutists opportunities to utilize alternate fingerings for greaterfacility in the upper register.Open holes provide better tone and the ability for advanced students to learn alternate fingerings,multiphonics, quarter-tones, and other extended techniques used in contemporary, jazz, and avant-garde music.The Solid Silver headjoint provides a superior tone and is highly recommended by teachers.