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If you have Silkstone whistles you'd like to sell, please contact me at support at irish flute store dot com.

Thanks!

USPS is taking parcels. We receive them in regularly.

Our last few international orders going out are experiencing longer transit times. As such, we have just switched to DHL for all international shipments during this season.

We also have an instructor directory here:

https://www.irishflutestore.com/pages/instructors

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What a steal Loren! I was surprised to see your Watson take so long to sell and that you had to drop the price. The market is much larger than our awesome little community here. At IFS, instruments are priced based on makers' current pricing, wait time & comps. We'd be doing a disservice to make...

Here's the link to Jem's Facebook post on the Keymaster Page.

https://bit.ly/2ZfCvGH

Some of you might have seen on Facebook that this was my friend and film maker Jem Moore's main flute. He found it while we were filming The Keymaster. Last year he had triple bypass surgery and shared on the Keymaster Facebook page that he is selling to knock out the rest of his medical bills. Real...

I should add that Jim at Clarke said...

"Definitely looks like a CLARKE , the only thing I can think of is that Clarke did produce ‘own brand’ whistles for a number of British companies over many years, particularly for export!
Regrettably I cannot give a date of manufacture."

Trying to estimate the date of this antique Clark (no E?) that just arrived in the shop. I reached out to Clarke and they didn't know either. Anyone here have an somewhat educated guess? Thanks much! https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2140/2331/products/P1002025_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1561070677 https://...

Hey Thomas! I was going to email you directly but I though others might like to know that the closest I've found to Silkstones these days are Andy's Galeon brand whistles: https://www.irishflutestore.com/collections/featured-whistles/products/galeon-aluminum-high-d-whistle My main "axe" fo...

See attached for a cheat sheet I made a while back for folks wondering the same.

https://bit.ly/2Nf9HLz

SteveB wrote:I suspect that a freshly oiled flute plays better for the same reason that a newly washed car runs better.

Steve - You beat me to it!

That said, Desi Seery used to oil his Delrin flutes for the same reason.

I'll occasionally hear of folks who have had a "bad" Copeland but in all our years working with Michael directly ( we used to carry them at Whistle & Drum ) and now offering them second had at Irish Flute Store, I've yet to come across one (a bad one that is...) I'll let you know here ...

You can now see what certain instruments sold for on IFS by browsing the sold sections - which does fluctuate over time based on the market.

https://www.irishflutestore.com/collect ... stles-sold

Hope that helps.

Yep, Copeland & Sindts have been selling at strong prices these days. Prices at IFS are set by the current market demand which is researched via eBay, other online forums, past sales history from W&D and IFS, etc...

Just saw your reply here. Got back to you a while back there