

Amore Traverso' was mixed by Luigi Scuderi (Tower Hill Studios) and. And this isn’t mentioning the conveniently engineered mechanisms that coordinate certain keys to others for example, when the first key is pressed, it links to the small key to its left, which stabilizes the B natural. On the other hand, the power/prog elements are still on as well as. This doesn’t include extra gizmos such as a C# trill key, etc. For reference, compared to the baroque traverso’s total holes of six, the modern flute has eighteen holes and fifteen keys that one can physically press down. There is less room for pitch ambiguity when there are more keys to ensure the proper sounding of a pitch. The sound is more responsive overall, and precise. I found myself thinking how convenient and foolproof the metal flute seems compared to the baroque flute. The finger accuracy necessary to sound the right pitches - and even more so to have acceptable pitch on pitches - is astounding. Because the instrument is completely open-holed with no key covers, it seemed like all of my nightmares from removing my right-hand ring finger flute from my modern flute, magnified by ten times. The traverso seems like a cross-breed between a recorder and a modern flute. There was so much distance that I couldn’t fathom how one could navigate tricky fingering passages… until I reminded myself that the musicians of the baroque era knew nothing else.

Upon assembling the baroque traverso for the first time, I was immediately surprised at the seemingly tremendous distance in between keys. Traverso grew up in Peru, Canada and the United Kingdom. Specialty Focus: Hand fractures, wrist fractures, forearm fractures, nerve. Giovanni Traverso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also a gastroenterologist in the Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School. And comfort, from the perspective of a player accustomed to the ergonomically designed modern flute, seemed the least of concerns. Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness.

Traverso is affiliated with Broward Health Coral Springs. He works in Coral Springs, FL and 2 other locations and specializes in Surgery and Hand Surgery. Initial impression: it’s so light! And made of wood! And comprised of four parts (headjoint, first three holes, the second set of three holes, and pinky key) instead of three, which I later learned offers the player much more flexibility with positioning and therefore comfort. Traverso graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine,University of The West Indies Faculty of Medicine St Augustine Trinidad in 2005.
