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We have all wondered about the penny whistle looking thing that Picard plays in an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation. Well, the whistle is for sale from the Star Trek Experience site. The price is $2000. You can check it out at http://www.ds9promenade.com/ds9promenad ... ndex2.html. Click on TNG Props. It is listed as Ressikan Flute. Thought some folks might at least like to take a closer look at this item.

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The link doesn't work!
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On 2001-07-13 10:31, JessieK wrote:
The link doesn't work!

Just get rid of the period at the end of the url and it will get you there where you will eventually see what could not possibly be a playable instrument (judging by the equal size and spacing of the toneholes).
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<img src="http://www.ds9promenade.com/store/media ... _flute.jpg" width=355 height=86 alt="prop_ressikan2_flute.jpg" hspace=3 vspace=3 border=0 >

<img src="http://www.ds9promenade.com/store/media ... _flute.jpg" width=476 height=449 alt="prop_ressikan_flute.jpg" hspace=3 vspace=3 border=0 >

$2000 = 1 unplayable Ressikan flute or
2 Patrick Olwell unkeyed D flutes
10 Copeland D
18 Overton D
200 Oak D
400 Watltons Little Black Whistle

Sounds like a bargain to me
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Post by JessieK »

Hee hee!

Olwell flutes (with tuning slides) don't cost $1000 anymore.

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Post by TonyHiggins »

You don't think you could tweak it, put a little wax in the fipple area? Or maybe, one of the real whistle makers could make a playable replica "Limited Edition Ressikan" whistle. Sell it for $2000 with a framed photo of Charleton Heston or whoever.

So Jean Luc wasn't really playing it on the episode. What a letdown.

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On 2001-07-13 11:09, JessieK wrote:
Hee hee!

Olwell flutes (with tuning slides) don't cost $1000 anymore.

:smile:
Now you have my curiosity up. Well, how much do Olwell's cost now? I'm getting ready to send Hammy some dough. I will not change that, but now I just want to know. Do you know the updated prices? Thanks Jessie.
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Post by raindog1970 »

I suppose this puts an end to all the mystery surrounding the instrument.
What a let down too... I was hoping it was a real instrument.
Even if it was real, it wouldn't be worth $2000 though!
I would pay a reasonable price for a functional reproduction though... I'm a die hard Trekkie and "The Inner Light" is my favorite episode.
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Well, now at least we know the "Maker" of the mystery instrument:
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<I>"This prop was created by Alan Sims from The Paramount Prop Department"</I>
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Olwell flutes with nickel tuning slides are $1095 and with silver tuning slides are $1195. I have an Olwell and a Hammy, and they are both great...as is the Copley...those three are in a league of their own, I think.

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Post by ErikT »

There's still the mystery of who played the original song and on what instrument. Has that been solved, yet?

And, I'm not convinced that it is unplayable... probably isn't, but who would go through all of the trouble to create a tapered body if it didn't work at all. Not only that, but it does appear to be hollow - not just a block of wood with surface holes cut in it (notice the reflection of light at the bottom of the holes). Why not just cut the body off of a Shaw or Clarke and glue it to a piece of wood? And the barrel is very smooth. I can't imagine getting a piece of metal to bend that smoothly unless it were wrapped around a mandrel. Of course, it could be paper. But, there's got to be more to this story... and I'll make it up if I have to :smile:

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Is anyone else having an urge to buy 100 sweetones, some paint and some white cord?? :smile:

Now, if only I can get Scott Bakula (Capt Archer of the next ST series "Enterprise) to play one, we'd be rich! :smile:
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Post by TonyHiggins »

I notice in the photo that the holes are equally spaced and sized. I don't imagine it would be in tune. A nice job for a prop, though. The other props look pretty cool, too, like the phaser. I'd rather get one of those.
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Post by Chuck_Clark »

The question that occurs to me is why pay some machinist union scale to make this prop from scratch when they could buy a brass whistle off the card for $10. If it had to be conical, dip a Clarke in gold paint.

No wonder movies cost millions to make!
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Post by Bobj »

The music (Ressikan Flute Song by Jay Chattaway) is on the Sessioneer web site if you are interested, http://www.sessioneer.com.
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