Garner Tantalum Headjoint-weighted Crown, Power Bands-TONS Of Projection

Description

I am very impressed with this headjoint. Not only beautiful but very colorful and expressive as well as free blowing.
As per the Garner website:
The Garner Headjoint will improve the pitch throughout the 3-octave range of any flute without having to make major manual adjustments to your embouchure by rolling in or out or by directing or changing your airstream. Try it with a tuner vs. your current headjoint. Garner Headjoints allow easier changes in tone colors, tonguing, jumping of octaves and less splitting or cracking of notes. Produced in a variety of metals, many used for the first time in headjoint design, a Garner Headjoint will make your flute perform with greater ease and will enhance your playing.
Power Bands- Power Bands (patent pending) are used to secure the wall to the tube without using soldering methods. Since the high heat required for soldering softens the tube, the Power Bands (patent pending) allow the tube to remain very hard, effectively improving the resonance and the spectrum of sound that is produced. The Power Bands (patent pending) also apply pressure to the tube around the embouchure allowing for cleaner tonguing and jumping of octaves.
Extremely innovative methods of fabrication are employed in order to utilize metals that have never before been used in headjoint design. Tantalum and niobium are both pure metals that are extremely hard and dense which positively affects both the high frequency and low frequency overtones or the color and spectrum of the sound produced.
Crown Assembly- All Garner Headjoint models contain a weighted crown and a weighted assembly with a rubber stopper. Cork is not used at all in the assembly. The rubber stopper will not deteriorate over time and requires little to no maintenance. Construction of the extra weight in the assembly and crown creates a hard dense surface that reflects all of the sound back out the open end of the flute, greatly reducing absorption or loss of sound in the crown.
Riser- The embouchure cut on all Garner Headjoints is the same, and in line with the style of a free-blowing cut. Because each dimension of the embouchure has a particular effect on different performance characteristics, the embouchure cut that we have selected and use on all our headjoints we believe is the very best compromise of all of these characteristics. All risers are produced and cut the same in order to minimize variations between headjoints of the same model and all models of Garner Headjoints produced.