Flute Comparison: Pearl, Yamaha & Orpheo

[ThaidaermClassic]

Pearl sound good

[pyrioni]

I played well!!!

[pyrioni]

I like Pearl better, sounds better.

[purrusco]

yamaha 281 fly excelent

[TanjaE83]

I liked the Pearl flute best, second is Yamaha. In my opinion the Orpheo is far behind them.

But it is not really fair comparing a Yamaha 225S to the Pearl Dolce which is at least double the price...;-)

[jazzflutist]

They all sound good (because you play well).

[foreverwoodwinds]

@jazzflutist thanks!

[VeronikaCsajagi]

I think to try a flute it's not enough to play short passages and change after 30 second. When I try out a flute I play a scale (slowly!), to try every note, try articulation, try extrem forte and piano....ect

[pegsbored]

I've never heard of Orpheo and can only imagine it is a chinese instrument. It may sound as lovely as a mirmatsu, but the day it breaks is the day your going to find out you got what you paid for. Cheaper materials, parts that can't be duplicated or found, easily bent or broken metal parts. If you want a cheaper flute that sounds nice add a couple hundred bucks and stick with a gemeinhardt or a jupiter. At least the known brands can be repaired by a tech.

[Rexicanoo]

It is spell Muramatsu moron! You sure seem to know your flute stuff! NOT!

[Rexicanoo]

It was obviously a typo. You are smart!

[bryanhur]

Thanks for putting the time into this. I was looking for a comparison between a Yamaha and a Pearl so I could decide which sound I liked the most. This was helpful.

[Framus89]

I own a Orpheo 615RBE which cost me 150.00 and I am not upset with my purchase. It sounds way better than a lot of stuff out there. I mean I think it is a little unfair to compare it to the pearl which costs way more. Personally I thought it sounded better than the yamaha.

[Rexicanoo]

If you think a junk Orpheo sounds better then you must really suck at flute playing and have a very poor embouchure!

[maggiemexiface]

Yamaha's open hole models are way better than the student model you played on. I personally prefer Yamaha over all. Orpheo isn't that well known nor that great... Pearl gets the job done, but they aren't anything great. Yamahas are reliable & great for the price.

[klajai]

The first set of the clip, if the third one is Orpheo, then sound are much better then Pearl and Yamaha ??

[foreverwoodwinds]

Flute #1 (Yamaha 225S) which was messing up a few notes. Flute #2= Orpheo 615RBE [clanky keys] & flute #3= Pearl Dolce.

[julyanation20]

hey

im buying a ophero to just practice to get used to the open hole, im not buying it for it to be my personal flute

do u think its good enough to use just for practice? [$99] is how much it cost atm

pplease and thank you :D

[foreverwoodwinds]

Hello, are you buying an open hole Orpheo or you want to use a closed hole Orpheo as a practice flute to get used to the open hole flute on the side? The ONLY good Orpheo flutes were their closed hole model with pointed keys. EVERYTHING ELSE (including the 715, 615, closed hole, etc.) is trash and I wouldn't even get one to use as a lamp! Good luck!

[julyanation20]

i mean like practicing getting used to open hole.......till september....because thats when im getting my REAL flute [:

[foreverwoodwinds]

Hi, if you can get one for, say $99, I would I suppose but anything higher I wouldn't even bother. For $100 or a little more you can get one that'd be better quality that you can actually USE as a backup if needed. Good luck!

[jaszan20]

do you know how much the yamaha 211s should be im looking at getting on and i dont want to get ripped off xxxxx

[phineashenshaw]

Continued.... Another issue I have with this comparison is the performance factor. I can get on a cheap flute and make it sound good. If you try out a good flute and a proflute made of the same material, and used the same headjoint on both, both flute would sound identical. We will not even get into the factor of the recoding environment and the microphone! All in all, it was a dirty job and someone had to do it. Thanks for doing it!

[foreverwoodwinds]

For some reason I'm not getting notifications on here pertaining to comments to my videos. To each their own regarding my performance "factor" per each video as I don't sit around and prepare to do some sort of comparison and do so mostly for a general comparison just for my own archiving. For the record my Pearl had a PH-7 headjoint NOT the Forza so it was basically a stock-based flute comparison, nothing more nothing less!

[phineashenshaw]

Its cool, I did not mean it as an attack. I am just long winded...lol I have often thought about doing comparisons of my own, but just never had the time. I thought the comparison was cool.

[phineashenshaw]

As a Pearl owner, and an Orpheo flute owner, I really think comparing a Dolce to an Orpheo 615 is quite an unfair comparison. Of course the Dolce is a better flute over all. The Dolce has the Pearl pinless mechanism, and the Forze headjoint standard. The Orpheo does not. The Orpheo 615 would have compared better with a Jupiter 611, or a Pearl Quantz 665. Either way, it was a dirty job and someone had to do it!...continued

[manicjupiterflute]

Yamahas: overpriced and factory made, pearls: good, :gemeinhard: better for professional grade than a student grade, BUT I have a jupiter 507S and I'm a beginner and I love it. So what about a Jupiter? I think they're a good brand.

[houtblazer]

I don't think that yamahas are overpriced :(, they are very stable and honest flutes. Even more so, they have real good potential concearning sound.

[manicjupiterflute]

Well, excuse me, maybe not OVERPRICED, but a little more expensive than other flute brands. Yah a lot of people love yamaha, BUT, to me, it just reminds me of motorcycles. That and they're too standardized.

[FenAllo1]

My friend, you have it all backwards!

Pearl and Yamaha flutes are modestly priced and great quality flutes!

Jupiter and Gemeinhardt are the lower qualities flutes that I wouldn't recommend.

[foreverwoodwinds]

Personally from buying and selling flutes I can tell you that from bottom to top price-wise is Gemeinhardt, Jupiter, Pearl & Yamaha. Gemeinhardt's older flute models from the 1990s were MUCH better than the "products" they're producing today and I refuse to buy or sell any Gemeinhardt products (unless it's a well-playing piccolo) made from 2000-current as they quality has gone downhill and this is a 100% FACT! Yamaha & Pearl student flutes usually sell for about $300 & Gem.+Jup. being -$200.

[ankeburley]

i have a pearl dolce...its worth buying trust me!!!

[foreverwoodwinds]

I agree completely! I love mine but they're all different and I've tried other Pearl Dolce's (even with my own headjoint) that were properly set up but sounded dead.

[Freyaloulou]

thankyou for making this comparison, your demonstration gives me a clear path of which flute I should choose.

[beanie021]

But remember that your embrochure is different...

I wouldn't suggest Yamaha for anyone, to be honest. They're factory produced and have a lot of problems with corks. All the Yamaha's I've known are EXTREMELY sharp; so unless you play VERY loose, I don't suggest it. But that's me. >>

[smtiell]

what song are you playing at 6:00?

[bonerici]

next time pleease please explain in the mike which flute is which, so we can tell which flute is which, I hear you put down 1 flute and pick up another but which is which you know?

[Doombah91]

I like the 3rd one...

How much did you pay for it??

[foreverwoodwinds]

3rd = Pearl Dolce = $2400

[Renee11123]

Which flute is the third one?

[foreverwoodwinds]

Pearl Dolce

[pennsylvaniaflutist]

IMO flute #3 sounded the best overall.  Flute #2 sounded great but had "clicky" keys. I'm most surprised that flute #1 was a Yamaha, it sounded much more airy to me. Thank you so much for doing this demo! What is your opinion of the Orpheo overall?

[YoNoLoHice]

I´m not able to say which is which, but I think I prefer the sound of the 3rd one when I listen to them. Which is it??

[Shakiki]

I kept accidentally pressing something on flute #1 (Yamaha 225S) which was messing up a few notes. Flute #2= Orpheo 615RBE [clanky keys] & flute #3= Pearl Dolce. Maybe I'll make a better video after practicing some lol.

[wdciii]

I would be very hard pressed to choose among them! -Dennis