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Anyone have/willing to part with one of these? Preferably lined headjoint. PM is fine...thanks.

There are no Copley Prattens. Dave's flutes are most significantly inspired by Hawkes & Son models, which are somewhat similar.

Well not exactly sure about that. His website says "pratten model." And I have played one and it wasnt the rudall model. So that's where I'm coming from.

What Dave means by that is one-piece rather than two-piece body. It's otherwise the same flute.

Are you looking for a keyed or keyless flute? I have a 6-keyer that's currently being repadded and that I'll advertize here once I get it back, but the body is in 2 pieces (as Peter said, Dave Copley's "Pratten" style body simply means that it's a one-piece body).

Gcobean wrote:Anyone have/willing to part with one of these? Preferably lined headjoint. PM is fine...thanks.

Possibly we could use some more details as to what you're looking for, and to what country? Keyless, keyed, nickel or sterling tuning slide, case, etc.? There is a bit of a range in price depending.
http://www.copleyflutes.com/catalog.html

I have a Copley keyless D flute, African Blackwood, with sterling silver slide and rings which I would be willing to part with.
It has the two-piece body though, so PM me is this is of any interest to you. I've had this flute since new. It is in excellent
condition and is a really nice player.

As far as I can tell from the Copley website the Pratten and Rudall & Rose models just differ based on whether the body is
a single section (Pratten) or in two sections (Rudall), but are otherwise acoustically the same.