Hey Everyone,
I was wondering, when I looked on eBay for Irish Flutes, there were one or two rosewood and boxwood flutes, both by the same maker. The price was 125$, which seems rediculously cheep for a good flute. Here's the URL for one of the flutes : http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dl ... 1468857660
My questions is does anyone know if these are nice flutes and the maker is just desperate to get his flutes out to the public, or are they crappy, therefore going for a really cheep price.
Well, any insight would be nice,
Caryn
Irish Flutes on eBay
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Caryn, Caryn, Caryn.
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
These are flutes made in Pakistan. They're crap. Pure and simple. That's why they're so cheap! And they've been flooding the selling sites all over. Unfortunately several people have bought them only to be terribly disappointed. For good reason, too.
If you read the feed-back the seller posted on the eBay site (obviously a ploy to let people believe it's a good product!), none mention how the flute PLAYS! They all extol how good the seller is, how pretty the flute is, even how well it was packaged. But NONE say it plays well. That's because they don't.
Use your money elsewhere. In my experience, no good flute ever comes cheaply. Less expensive than another, perhaps, but not cheaply.
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
These are flutes made in Pakistan. They're crap. Pure and simple. That's why they're so cheap! And they've been flooding the selling sites all over. Unfortunately several people have bought them only to be terribly disappointed. For good reason, too.
If you read the feed-back the seller posted on the eBay site (obviously a ploy to let people believe it's a good product!), none mention how the flute PLAYS! They all extol how good the seller is, how pretty the flute is, even how well it was packaged. But NONE say it plays well. That's because they don't.
Use your money elsewhere. In my experience, no good flute ever comes cheaply. Less expensive than another, perhaps, but not cheaply.
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I posted this some time back. That IS the same make of flute I bought a couple of years ago.
David, do you think the tuning slide has any "parts" value? What about a bone embouchure? I'm thinking salvage. Thanks
After thinking about it a while, I feel I was too nice about describing the quality of the instrument. I have not sold it because I have a conscience. I hope to one day recycle the tuning slide and the bone embouchrue that Glenn got for me.I have one.
The most expensive piece of fire wood I ever purchased. Even a Generation whistle of the worst quality control would be 100x better than that piece of ... from Pakistan. They are not in tune with themselves. I even had Glenn Schultz work on it. He did his best. The first octive is in tune. The second octive us useless. I do not believe that anyone could blow it in tune.
Do yourself a favor. If you really want a musical instrument of that quality, make one yourself with this method. Drink a case of black label beer. Rip down a curtain rod. Use a hammer and a nail to place six holes in it (it doesn't matter where). Then use a fire ax to cut an embouchrue. If you were careless enough, it will sound as bad.
David, do you think the tuning slide has any "parts" value? What about a bone embouchure? I'm thinking salvage. Thanks
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Caryn,
Everyone here will tell you the same thing David and Mark have - Don't even think about it buying one of those flutes. They are all crap and the makers should be punished for wasting valuable timber to make useless "instruments".
Loren
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Everyone here will tell you the same thing David and Mark have - Don't even think about it buying one of those flutes. They are all crap and the makers should be punished for wasting valuable timber to make useless "instruments".
Loren
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Nope....the slide wouldn't have any salvage, either, unlessyou were making the same shape headpiece to go around it....but frankly, I'd just pitch it. Hang the flute on a wall....eek, can't even believe I said that! I've got two of them in the bone yard and I use them to practice a new technique of drilling, cutting, bandsawing, whatever...that's all they're worth to me. But, as I said, others have found a way to make something of them. I can't.
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Caryn, I was one of the people who got a cheap Pakistani flute. If you would like it I would be happy for you to have it. It has a few cracks and isn't playable below a certain point, but those can be filled in.
This will not make it a good, or even acceptable flute, but we must admit that the price is right! I leapt before I looked, and have learned my lesson. The benefit of all this is that I turned to whistles, and I'm very happy about THAT!
This will not make it a good, or even acceptable flute, but we must admit that the price is right! I leapt before I looked, and have learned my lesson. The benefit of all this is that I turned to whistles, and I'm very happy about THAT!
Remember, you didn't get the tiger so it would do what you wanted. You got the tiger to see what it wanted to do. -- Colin McEnroe
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tyghress, wow. can I say there are some increditably giving and nice people on this forum? But really, I already have an cheep Irish Flute, so I don't want to take another person's flute (but than again...) what I am really looking for right now is a better flute than what I have now.On 2001-10-02 13:44, tyghress wrote:
Caryn, I was one of the people who got a cheap Pakistani flute. If you would like it I would be happy for you to have it. It has a few cracks and isn't playable below a certain point, but those can be filled in.
This will not make it a good, or even acceptable flute, but we must admit that the price is right! I leapt before I looked, and have learned my lesson. The benefit of all this is that I turned to whistles, and I'm very happy about THAT!
So, I don't know if you were being scarcastic (but honestly, you don't seem like that type of person) or what, but well, i don't really know what to say.
Thanks for all the imput.
Caryn
P.S. you know what is really ironic is tyghress is like the third person to offer to give a flute.
I think that my flute can be a very useful tool, and therefore valuable in its own right. It is the PERFECT vehicle to show someone that they DON'T want to buy an instrument if they don't have a clue as to whether it is worthwhile or simply a pretty piece of firewood.
However, it may also be useful for someone to putter around with if they want to try out some repair technique before trying it on a real instrument.
Caryn, I am a nice a giving soul, but handing off this hollow, bored piece of wood doesn't really do me credit.
However, it may also be useful for someone to putter around with if they want to try out some repair technique before trying it on a real instrument.
Caryn, I am a nice a giving soul, but handing off this hollow, bored piece of wood doesn't really do me credit.
Remember, you didn't get the tiger so it would do what you wanted. You got the tiger to see what it wanted to do. -- Colin McEnroe