05/28/2023
Some wonderful photos of the flute day our European Artist-in-Residence Gareth McLearnon gave in the Lorraine region of France yesterday! Un Grand Succès!! 🥳🇫🇷
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05/26/2023
Attention les flûtistes de Paris! 🇫🇷 Manhattan School of Music Professor and Haynes Artist Linda Chesis will be giving a Masterclass at Aria Musique Paris combined with a day-long Haynes Flute Exhibition on June 6th! Incriptions ici: www.wmshaynes.com/chesisparis23
05/23/2023
Attention Vienna! Haynes Artist and Professor at MDW - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien Wally Hase the will play “Postcards” for Flute Solo by Tilmann Dehnhard on Thursday in the Alte Rathaus!
05/20/2023
An invitation from the one-and-only Nestor Torres! Check this out! 😎
Saludos! Hello Everyone! This a busy and exciting weekend with a virtual Master for flute students of the Conservatorio de Música Simón Bolivar today at 2 pm, and a sold out Gala Concert with the Florida Youth Orchestra tomorrow at 2 pm.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87053130582?pwd=S0pMcXEzSkpDVGs1Rm1naDUzdDRkdz09
05/20/2023
Jumping on this meme bandwagon. If you know, you know… happy Saturday! 🥳
05/19/2023
What’s your choice? Inline? Offset? E mech? E Facilitator? C # Trill? State your preference in the comments!
05/17/2023
The Haynes Young Artist roster is open for 2023 applications! The age limit has been shifted to 30 and under so that more talented young people can benefit from this program! For all information check out the page on the website:
www.wmshaynes.com/youngartists2023
05/15/2023
All hand-crafted, agonizingly cut with precision, artistry and a laser-like focus on The Haynes Sound. Presence, projection, brilliance and versatility. Q series owners, which headjoint graces YOUR Haynes?
05/13/2023
Die Zauberflöte: “Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton”
Seth’s Magic Flute is a Haynes. Great work! 🥳 With all best wishes for this exciting and innovative new production!
05/12/2023
It’s Friday the 12th - so close enough for a superstition story! We recently came to headjoint #12999 and in a grand Haynes tradition of avoiding 13’s - we jumped straight to #14000 😉There will be more to this story later in the year! Stay tuned! 🤓
05/10/2023
The beginning…. Or, in fact, if you ask Rob (Master-craftsman Rob Scholz) the person who put this masterpiece together - we’re about 26.9% of the way through the construction process of this gorgeous instrument! 😍
05/04/2023
To celebrate here are Haynes Artists Gareth Davies and Benjamin Smolen - the solo flutists from Star Wars Episodes 1, 2 & 3 and 7, 8 & 9 - playing a brand new arrangement of John Williams’s timeless ‘Princess Leia’s Theme’. Enjoy! Share! And May the Fourth be with you! 💫
05/02/2023
Huge Congratulations to the Prize Winners in the San Francisco Flute Society & Festival College/Adult Section Competition! Three Prizes, won by Three Haynes Young Artists! Bravo Nikka Gershman, Łucja Chyrzyńska and Arin Sarkissian! 🥳🏆
05/01/2023
LIVE from the AFE - Asociación de Flautistas de España Convention! Gareth McLearnon - Flute takes ORQUESTA DE FLAUTAS!!
04/30/2023
Congratulations/Felicidades to Jaime Ramos Fuentes for WINNING FIRST PRIZE 🏆 in the AFE - Asociación de Flautistas de España Concorso/Competition and a beautiful Amadeus Piccolo! 🥳
04/29/2023
¡Hola! And greetings from the AFE - Asociación de Flautistas de España Convention in Malaga! In partnership with MUSIKARTE Instrumentos with our European Artist-in-Residence, Gareth McLearnon - Flute and a load of gorgeous Haynes Flutes! 🇪🇸
04/28/2023
A little STUNNER for your to send you dreaming into your weekend! This white gold Custom with silver rings, toneholes and mechanism is about to light up someone’s flute-playing life! 😍 Don’t you just LOVE the contrast of the white gold, rose gold and silver? 🥰
04/26/2023
You've met the Makers, now meet the SHAKERS! Brand new Flute 360 Podcast featuring three of the most beautiful, talented, brilliant, modest and downright fascinating people (guess who's writing this?!) 😂 talking about their experiences and what brought them to where they are! A must for music majors, anyone interested in the industry and those fascinated with the goings on here at Haynes! Available wherever you get your podcasts! https://heidikaybegay.com/episode-244/
04/24/2023
Congratulations to Eva Faganélj winner of the Under 18 Young Talent section of the Nederlandse Fluitconcoursen over the weekend! We hope you LOVE your new Custom Silver Haynes Headjoint! 🥳
04/23/2023
A little selection of moments from this weekend’s activities in South Florida with Haynes Artists Jennifer Grim and Nestor Torres! Amazing, workshops, concerts, masterclasses with these two FANTASTIC musicians in association with our friends and partners at Florida Flutes! 🥳
04/23/2023
Last day at the Adams European Flute Centre Festival! With the one and only Marina Piccinini giving insight and inspiration in her masterclasses to Bachelors and Masters students at the festival!
04/22/2023
The wonderful Emily Beynon in action giving masterclasses here at the Adams European Flute Centre Festival!
04/21/2023
First day at the Adams European Flute Centre Festival! Warm up, Flute Choir and Lecture from Gareth McLearnon - Flute and an “Ask the Expert” session with Joy Roberts! Gorgeous flutes to try and sweet Haynes merch! 🥳🤩
04/19/2023
Gold Dust. A phrase meaning “difficult to obtain”. But it’s a daily byproduct of the work we do here at the magic flute workshop! Here one of our makers Patricia is drilling the pilot holes for soldered toneholes on a 10K Custom Flute!
04/18/2023
Welcoming the latest addition to the Haynes Artist Family - Founder and Director of GRAMMY nominated ensemble Hub New Music - Flutist, Educator and Entrepreneur Michael Avitabile! Read all about Michael here: www.wmshaynes.com/michael-avitabile
04/18/2023
We’ll be back at the wonderful Adams European Flute Centre Festival this weekend! With masterclasses and workshops from Haynes Artists Emily Beynon, Marina Piccinini and Gareth McLearnon - Flute and with master technician Joy Roberts in residence the whole weekend! See the whole amazing program at www.wmshaynes.com/adams
04/15/2023
Our European Artist-in-Residence Gareth McLearnon - Flute was on the jury for the International Flute Competition D. Cimarosa this week! The Haynes Prize winner was Angela A. Borlacchi winning a Solid Silver headjoint! Gareth also took Flute Ensemble sessions with some of the candidates and the wonderful Falaut Flute Orchestra! 🇮🇹🤩
04/14/2023
A wonderful evening showing some beautiful flutes with our California partners Flutacious! at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with the Studio of Denis and Erin Bouriakov - with a lovely dinner with Haynes Young Artist Jennifer Jo!
04/12/2023
Heading to NAMM Show in Anaheim this week?? Get yourself to booth 8510 and say hello to Korinne Marie Smith and try some beautiful Haynes Flutes! 😍
04/11/2023
New Yorkers! Tonight! A masterclass and recital from Haynes Artist Jennifer Grim! Live at our friends and partners Flute Center of New York details here:
https://flutecenter.com/blogs/flute-center-events/jennifer-grim-recital-april-11
04/10/2023
The perfect receptacle for the Haynes owner and the PERFECT size for tea, coffee, hot chocolate, or even pens, pencils, and nik-naks of all shapes and sizes! Fit all four fingers in the handle and feel every INCH the Haynes nerd! 🥳 Available in the Haynes store and at Haynes Dealers worldwide! 🌍
04/09/2023
Wishing a Happy Easter to all who celebrate around the world! 🐣
04/07/2023
Sending you sweetly, sonorously singing into your weekend with a scintillatingly scrumptious silver stunner! 😍 Who’s lucky enough to play on one of these beauties? 🥰
04/04/2023
An announcement for those either in or near South Florida! In conjunction with our partners at Florida Flutes we are running the First Annual South Florida Flute Day in just a few weeks time! With special guest Haynes Artists Jennifer Grim and Nestor Torres! It promises to be a FANTASTIC day and is 100% Haynes sponsored - so FREE to attend! Details on our website: www.wmshaynes.com/south-florida-flute-day
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Haynes Young Artist and Colburn School student Nikka Gershman-Pepper @nikkaflute will be playing in the Charlotte White's Salon De Virtuosi Grant Winner's Concert on October 19th in the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City! New Yorkers can even contact Nikka via Instagram for complimentary tickets! Brava Nikka!
We hit a serendipitous joint Facebook and Instagram milestone over the weekend! So we’re celebrating with 10% off all T-Shirts & Hats in the Merch Store! Now with (limited) stocks in Europe too! www.wmshaynes.com/store
Catch Haynes Artist Gareth Davies playing Marc-André Dalbavie's EPIC Flute Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra on Vialma tomorrow night! More info here: https://email.vialma.com/lso-watchparty-sep22/
We were OVERWHELMED with the response to the Haynes Young Artist applications! So much talent to choose from! We finally whittled the candidates down to these additional TWELVE Young musicians who will join the roster this year! Congratulations! 🥳😎🤩
⚠️ ATTENTION! ⚠️ 41 Stolen Flutes from Daminelli Pietro in Bergamo, Italy! Full list of stolen instruments Is available here: www.wmshaynes.com/2022-daminelli-stolen-flutes
Launching "Schipani Sketches"
Join Haynes European Artist-in-Residence Gareth McLearnon for an exciting, feel-good launch of something beautiful! 🐶🥺 (apologies for the blank staring for the first few seconds and the echo - you'd think after 2020 - Gareth would have got the hang of live-streaming....🙄)
Forum Flute & Piano 2022
We just got some photos of what looks like a terrific time at the 34th Forum Flute and Piano in Luxembourg last month - with Haynes Artists Juergen Franz and Rute Fernandes! We have been a sponsor of this fantastic course for several years and we're delighted to see it going from strength to strength! 😍
Sparkle and shine! Check out a range of GORGEOUS Custom Crowns with Diamonds, Rubies, Emeralds, Sapphires and Amethysts and exquisite engraving at the Haynes Booth at The National Flute Association Convention! . . . . #flute #fluteplayer #flutesofinstagram #flutelife #goldflute #haynesflute #NFAFlute2022
This is it! NFA-eve!! The countdown is over and we can’t wait to welcome you all! The National Flute Association Convention starts TOMORROW! 🥳🥳🥳 #The12DaysOfNFA
An #ArtisTuesday celebratory post with newly tenured (🥳🥳) Associate Professor of UNC Greensboro and Haynes Artist Erika Boysen sharing some of her activities at #NFAFlute2022! The anatomical session in particular is a MUST SEE! ⚠️TRIGGER WARNING for THROAT CAM at the end of this video! 😬 ⚠️
Ok. It’s getting seriously close! Just TWO DAYS left until The National Flute Association Convention in Chicago! And we’re SHOWCASING our SHOWCASES! The first on Thursday “The Haynes Sound” and the second on Friday “Customization at its finest”! We’re also hoping to livestream so stay tuned! 🥳
So Haynes has TWO Custom Headjoint Cuts. N cut & P cut. So why have we used headjoints for day THREE countdown of #The12DaysOfNFA ?? Don’t miss the Showcase this week to find out! 😎
With just FOUR DAYS to go until The National Flute Association Convention - we’re featuring the four types of HAYNES MERCH that will be available at Booth 311! (And in our web store too) come and “represent” the Haynes Team! #The12DaysOfNFA
The #12DaysOfNFA countdown continues! FIVE DAYS to go and celebrating FIVE models of beautiful Haynes Q Series Flutes! Find your favorite at The National Flute Association Convention in Chicago! (Or your nearest Haynes Dealer!) 😎
#The12DaysOfNFA - SIX days to go and SIX models of Amadeus Flutes in the Haynes line -up! Which ones have you tried? If you have any gaps in your knowledge - you know where they’ll be to test! Booth 311 at The National Flute Association Convention!
#The12DaysOfNFA - and here we are! SEVEN days out! Did you know that there will be Haynes Flute Makers at the Booth (311) throughout The National Flute Association Convention? Technical questions are very WELCOME! As are you! 😎
#The12DaysOfNFA - EIGHT days out - and we celebrate the music of our European Artist-in-Residence Gareth McLearnon - Flute - whose six Haynes-Sponsored original works for Flute Ensemble are ALL being featured at this year’s convention - including a Chicago-themed premiere “DEEP DISH”!
#The12DaysOfNFA - NINE days out! And we can focus on where 9K Gold takes the stage in the Haynes Line-Up! Chiefly In our Q Series flutes with the gorgeous Q Fusion Flutes and also as a Classic headjoint option with a 9K lip plate! 😍 All available to try at The National Flute Association convention!
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Some things just seem destined to be. During their youth, the Haynes brothers were jeweller apprentices. More than likely George and William did not realize at the time how auspicious their jewellery training would turn out to be for the flute world. Their mastery with metals soon led them to form the most prestigious and longest-lasting flute company on the planet.
The Haynes Company celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2018.
It all started in 1888, when the brothers were persuaded by a friend to move from Providence, Rhode Island, to set up a flute making and repair business in Boston. There, they made copies of the Boehm & Mendler and Louis Lot flutes played by Boston Symphony Orchestra flutists. The rest is quite literally flute history.
In 1898, George Haynes invented the process of extruding tone holes from silver. The drawn tone holes caught on and became the standard method of flute making, and by the early 1920s his all-silver flutes had supplanted his wooden flute production. Haynes became known as an innovator of flute manufacturing – and the innovations continued.
In 1916, the company made its first cylindrical solid-silver piccolo; in 1917, the first A-flat piccolo for use in American military bands; and in 1926, the first conical bore piccolo. In 1920 Haynes developed its superb soldered tone hole model, which quickly became the new standard in flute manufacturing around the world. Superb quality and craftsmanship had become synonymous with the Haynes name.
In 1935, the Haynes Company made the first American platinum flute for the leading flutist of the time, Georges Barrère, who ordered this instrument to commemorate his departure as a symphony musician and the beginning of his solo career. His first performance with this flute took place at Chautauqua on July 28, 1935, when Barrère played the Bach B Minor Suite. The piece most famously connected to this flute, Varèse's Density 21.5, was premiered in 1936. This platinum flute was the first in a long line of legendary flutes built by the Haynes Company.
William Sherman Haynes retired to Florida in 1936 to enjoy the fruits of his labour. He left the company to his former wife, Lola, whose brother Mont Allison was the master flute-maker at the time. She was succeeded by long-time employee and next master flute-maker Lewis Deveau. Deveau was famous for maintaining the company's tradition of excellence, and for modernizing the Haynes flute to the Deveau scale at a time when the Cooper scale became the norm. From Deveau's death in 1993 to 2004, Haynes saw several changes of ownership and management, and saw its place in the flute-making world become a little uncertain, and desperately fought to maintain its position and reputation in this turbulent time.
In 2004, the company was purchased by Eastman Music Company, whose owner is one-time flutist Ni Qian. He hand-picked the cream of Boston’s flute-making talent and thoroughly reinvigorated and re-energised the brand. In 2010 Ni Qian moved the entire company to a new state-of-the-art facility in Acton, Massachusetts. With features such as Straubinger pads; a smooth, pinless mechanism; special hardened steels to carry the cast keys; and computer-assisted engineering, the Haynes flute offers modern technology while maintaining its vintage qualities and the distinctive sound that flutists continue to love. The Haynes Company has also expanded its collection to cover the range of student to professional, by offering the Haynes Q Series line as well as the intermediate-level Amadeus by Wm. S. Haynes flutes.
The Haynes Company has such a long and rich history that it is no wonder some of the most eminent flutists in the world are so attached to their Haynes instruments. From principal flutists of the world’s greatest orchestras, to international soloists and recording artists, to college professors at the most elite musical and academic institutions – professionals at the very highest level of artistry and achievement every day trust their Haynes flute to inspire, challenge and enrich their musical lives. We dearly hope that you treasure your Haynes flute in a similar way, and that it brings you years of joy and musical fulfilment.
Thanks for reading our story, and thanks for having Haynes as part of yours.
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I had my first look at my new 125 th Anniversary Model Haynes Flute !!!!
Who else is among the lucky owners of a Hundredth Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Model ?
Who else is among the lucky owners of a Hundredth Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Model ?
Seeing this sign , I was almost there !!!!
Love the engraving !!!!
The winter of 2014 was one snowstorm after another !!!! I kept on getting delayed week after week until it was finally clear enough to make the drive to the Acton workshop !!!!
Mountains of snow everywhere , but I finally arrived in the end of February 2014 to Nonset Path !!!!
Mountains of snow everywhere , but I finally arrived in the end of February 2014 to Nonset Path !!!!
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I have this flute for sale
For any information contact me private on FB or by my email :
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I have this flute for sale
For any information contact me private on FB or by my email :
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Having just seen Your list of artists, I miss the greatest of them all Jean Pierre Rampal, who, all the time I`v known him, was telling everyone about his wonderfull Haynes-flute and never played anything els. I myself have been playing a golden Haynes-flute since 1999 on behalf of Jean Pierre and my instrument is still being admired everywhere I have been playing it. Sincirily Yours Ole Birger Pedersen.
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