The Pedagogic fife with keys !
Edition N°04 Available now !
We started by making artisanal prototypes in plastic, because the pedagogic flutes which were at that time available from the usual manufacturers didn’t produce a good sound, and we thought some improvement in sound quality was surely possible.
Our plastic flutes were very much appreciated by the young students, and we decided to develop an original pedagogic flute in aluminium.
The well-known Belgian flutist and professor Gerard Noack was so impressed by the quality and design of our pedagogic flute, that he wrote an initiation manual for the beginning students: “The Coulon-Duffy flute: an introduction to the German flute”, which is a creative approach to learn to play the instrument.
Bizidee is a competition for innovative industrial design, which is organised every year by the Flemish government. (www.bizidee.be). The pedagogic flute Coulon-Duffy has obtained the 2nd price and a reward of 10.000 Euro. The jury was especially charmed by the fact that for the development of this new product, overall quality and customer requirements were the main issues.
We founded our own company: 
http://www.coulon-duffy.com