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My M&E R&R is nice for a polymer, but the keys stink, plain and simple. Get the keyless and get a better wood flute with keys.

5 pounds? Wow! Someone perhaps needed a quick fix. Come to think of it, I need a quick fix of an overton F. Haven't played my Copeland F or other whistles in ages.

Why would you want to sell this flute?

Great thread, and David's rant is always appreciated. but, for Solas (unless this is a dead thread), it should be no surprise that Egan moves away from Trad. Just listen to his solo albums, of which I like When Juniper Sleeps, but one can clearly see his yearning for slower, more fusion or ambient m...

Oh, I forgot. Yes, the Noy flute is a different character of a flute. Volume and session quality, but with fabulous tone. My Noy is, truthfully, still my favorite flute. As of today....

hi eilam:

Actually, the keyways are lined on all Grinter keyed flutes. So the swelling must be ever so slight. Anyway, we'll see how that goes in a few weeks.

Happy travels to the family, my man.

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I can not get enough of Eilam. The guy is such a star. My review of a flute pales in comparison to the stuff that guy makes. You all need to check out his art and work on his website, then you'll know what I mean. But on to the Grinter cocus 8-key. In regards to my review, I am beyond the point of o...

Whistlin'Dixie wrote:
Oh great, now I have an image of my flutes sitting in my wooden trunk crying "Get me out of here!"

Mary

Hilarious, Mary! You might be on to something. Maybe those flutes are being strategic--choosing you so that you'll trade them to the person they know you'll trade them to!

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g - of course thats all true, but why did the M&E pick me and not a keyed Wilkes? what does it say about me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :really: Because my good and great brother of the hat-ready perfect head....the wilkes is still looking for you! And the M&E? Smart flute, if you ask me....not man...

Why the flute or any instrument? We perhaps need to think that we are in control, we have free wills and are animate, thinking beings. The world around us is a distinct group of objects we can manipulate for our own ends--living trees, dead wood, organic and inorganic, this computer. All that is tru...

David Levine wrote:Olwell's current flutes are consistently good. Grinter's are not.

does this convey any misinformation? Polls aren't dumb--if people didn't want opinions, hoever misleading or biased, there wouldn't be a flute forum.

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Eilam, my spiritual brother! Can't quite go home to China yet--a little too busy with work and kashmir silk rugs. Electronics in India has added a whole new excitement to the world of Asia business. India, my friend, is magical, and I could easily see myself living here for a decade or more, but my ...

Hi andrew: We've never met. Ni hao! But dude, I'm sure you're a fine gentlemen, but you must have flunked your first economics course. Supply and demand determines price-- premiums and profitability are functions of a price the market will bear. I love the fact that flutes sell at market rates close...

Cool, Jessie. Looks great. I see you went with the amber blowedge afterall. On my blackwood Noy flute, Peter put some gold leaf behind the amber embouchure and end cap to bring out the contrast. And a very light flute, almost hard to believe. Still sturdy though. Eilan and I had wondered whether the...

that's cool! Just two days before that boxwood trip of Peter's, I played all the flutes he has on the table. I ACTUALLY asked to buy the boxwood one that Jessie referred to, but he was taking it to the event. My noy is still one of my favorite flutes, and my best travel flute due to the cool pistol ...