Boosey Pratten's Perfected sold on ebay yesterday

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Boosey Pratten's Perfected sold on ebay yesterday

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Did anyone see, or get, this? £285 seems like a very low price for it, no? A twelve-key Boosey Pratten's Perfected:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Boosey-Co-R-S- ... 663.l44720
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Perhaps it is a high pitched cylindrical flute with a fixed head joint, and therefore not in great demand as regards Irish traditional music?
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Siccama system, cylindrical bore.
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I obviously don't know my Booseys! I still thought it would go for more though.
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Re: Boosey Pratten's Perfected sold on ebay yesterday

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12 keys
hardly Irish-trad worthy
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