The Burkart Resona Flute: Designed to Inspire
Boasting a design derived from Burkart’s high-end custom flutes, the Burkart Resona flute offers advanced students and professionals a high-performance instrument at an accessible price point. Ergonomically designed touch pieces and a unique Burkart headjoint cut provide a secure and comfortable playing experience, while a robust, silver-plated mechanism ensures that your Resona flute will go the distance in your career. The Resona flute’s drawn tone hole body produces a warm, resonant sound with exceptional responsiveness. Each Resona flute is expertly crafted in an overseas workshop before returning stateside to be finished and play tested by Burkart’s highly skilled artisan flute makers at the company’s Boston-area headquarters. Designed to inspire, the Burkart Resona flute will ignite your creativity, elevate your technique, and open up new avenues of expression as you progress on your musical journey.
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Advanced features and customization
The Burkart Resona flute series consists of three models. All feature ergonomic keywork with French-style open-hole keys and pointed key arms, plus an offset G key for unstrained left-hand positioning. Resona R-100 and R-150 flutes are crafted with a silver-plated body and mechanism, whereas the Resona R-150 has a solid sterling silver body and silver-plated mechanism. The R-100 comes with a silver-plated Burkart Resona headjoint, while the R-150 and R-150 headjoints are sterling silver. All feature a sterling silver lip plate and riser. Options include a C# trill key and Split E mechanism. With features and options previously available only on custom instruments, the Burkart Resona flute line lets you customize your instrument to perfectly suit your playing preferences.
Burkart: peerless professional flutes and piccolos
The Burkart name is globally recognized for unwavering quality, captivating sound, and unparalleled design. Comprising skilled artisans and accomplished flutists, the Burkart team strives to craft instruments that elevate musicians to their fullest potential, enabling them to transcend boundaries and produce a soulful and distinctive sound. While Burkart has emerged as a major player within the professional flute and piccolo scene in the 21st century, it retains the ethos of a small artisan shop with an unwavering commitment to handmade excellence. Ever responsive to the flute community’s need for advancements, Burkart has created innovative designs that incorporate new materials and even the precision tools with which to craft them. Burkart flutes and piccolos exemplify the company motto, “Precision that plays.” Under the guidance of company co-founder Lillian Burkart, each instrument is meticulously crafted and play tested before it is entrusted to you, its final owner. Acquiring a Burkart flute or piccolo marks the beginning of a lifelong journey filled with musical fulfillment. At Sweetwater, we’re thrilled to offer you Burkart’s distinguished lineup of peerless professional instruments.
Burkart Resona R-150 Features:
- Professional-class concert flute
- Drawn tone holes, open-hole keys, pointed key arms
- Silver-plated body and B footjoint
- Sterling silver Burkart Resona headjoint with silver lip plate and riser
- Silver-plated mechanism; Resona pads
- Offset G, Split E mechanism, C# trill
- Legendary Burkart playability and sound
- Finished and tested in Burkart’s USA workshop
