Hi Wes - great stuff - that's a very acceptable total price, assuming it is one of the ones with a reasonable "voice" and decent intonation - and I suppose not a disastrous amount if it turns out duff...... Those dimensions suggest it should play acceptably at A=440, though maybe with only a little extension of the tuning slide. It certainly isn't a
diapason normal/Low Pitch example. Good find!
As for fingering charts for 8-key flute, there are various online resources, as you might imagine. Rick Wilson has the most comprehensive if you check up on his site, which you have already visited - just browse the Home Page.
Terry McGee's website has fingering chart resources and some of the stuff on
this site can be helpful. Whatever, you will most likely find that your flute will have its own peculiarities and you may have to experiment to find the best out of several possibilities for certain notes - and then some of the inferior alternatives may still prove useful in specific contexts.
I have harvested your e-address from your forum profile and will e-mail you various other resources - Rockstro and Langey full charts including trills and also my own reduced version of Rick's generic-composite with most of the less commonly useful alternatives removed, leaving just the basic common fingerings - I have versions I tailored to specific nach Meyer flutes I have worked on and you can easily do a "save as" on one of them and then edit it to show the alternatives you find best on your particular flute.
IMO it is well worth working at learning to use the full, "correct" fingerings from the outset when taking up a different instrument/system, even though to begin with that will seem onerous and frustrating.
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