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FS - Contemporary Antiques

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Currently offering for Adoption: Two Contemporary American Antiques:
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Sweetheart Single Key Irish flute in Rosewood with Faux Ivory Rings and a single brass Eb key. Good example of Ralph's Design and Work. It does have a crack in the bottom tennon of the left hand piece (never got around to mending it), doesn't affect playability. I'm asking $250 for this flute including priority mail within contiguous US.

Cooperman Concert Fife in Blackwood with Nickel-Silver rings. I searched long and hard for a good fife to use playing Irish Tunes. This fife has a strong and colorful bottom octave and clear voice with good intonation. I'm asking $200 for this fife including Priority Mail within the contiguous US.

If you would like both, I would be happy to send them to you for $400.

Please respond via PM or Email.

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Tell us something.: I play flute and stringed instruments and enjoy playing in sessions and for step dancers and teach music part-time. My flutes are a new Gilles Lehart blackwood keyless in D, a c.1820 Clementi 'Nicholson improved' English boxwood single key in F and a simple-system 8-key English blackwood flute made by Richard Weekes of Plymouth, Devon c.1840 both in beautiful, pristine condition. I also have a wooden c.1880 English keyed flageolet. My home is in North Somerset a short distance from where my family come from at Blackford in the Mendip Hills and my repertoire are the tunes that are local to my area. That is the rural vernacular English music from when ordinary working people simply played and danced to their own rhythm with little concern for that which lay beyond a day's walk.
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What the... is a 'contemporary antique' ?

Apart from being a contradiction in terms.

Presumably you would accept expired currency in payment? :wink:
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mendipman wrote:What the... is a 'contemporary antique' ?
I take it to mean either a modern reproduction of antique instruments/designs
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An older modern instrument, such as a 2001 Hammy Hamilton flute vs. a 2019-made model. Modern, but not as fresh as new.
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What can I say, the title amused me! :D

The flute and fife are of relatively recent manufacture (< 25-years), but no longer produced.

In penance for the confusion, I'll knock $50 off the price of each! :thumbsup:
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Sorry for being uninformed but what key does the fife play in?
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Hey EZman,

The fife plays in Bb (typical of most fifes). :party:
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