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Cool - I don't know if there's a resource anywhere that lists numbers against year of production?

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Hi folks, it's a good few years since I posted on this forum but I thought it was worthwhile letting you know about the flute I am selling. I think I have followed the forum rules by posting it in the UIE forum & linking to it here . Apologies if this is not the case. The flute was owned by Andr...

Folks, it has been some years since I was last active on this forum but I thought I'd let you know about the flute that I am selling. The Ebay description has all the information but this was a flute that I bought from the late Andrew Kirby years ago. It had been refurbished & given a new headjo...

so I suppose there are no trades descriptions issues. Aside from their definition of Britain. No Scottish audition and no-one from Scotland through to main stages, or at least that's what I was told. Did they have Cardiff and Belfast auditions? I think we are still serving a ban from the days of th...

I have owned and played Hamilton, Seery & Murray. I don't really think that the Seery is quite in the same league as the other two. I played the Hammy for a few years but I got a bit bored with the tone, finding it a bit one-dimensional. (I listen to Paul McGrattan & think this is probably m...

CRAN-tastic!

the key to these flutes is a new foot joint. They are horribly flat with the stock foot. Mine was sorted with new headjoint & a good going-over by Chris Wilkes & it is an exceptional flute. I did not play it pre-restoration so I don't know what sort of shape it was in tonally. Mine also has...

michael c wrote:There's a Belfast flute maker, whose (is that wrong too?) name I have heard being pronounced "Samurai".

I knew a Belfast man called Tom Murray who throughout his entire working life was referred to as Tommy Rae. I don't think he was any relation to Samurai!

During on of the last phone calls I had with him he was telling me about his low blood sugar and the fact that he had to test himself by taking a sample of blood from his finger. In his words: "I get a bit confused, I don't know if I am supposed to prick my finger or finger my prick".

This is very sad news. I visited Andrew a couple of years ago & he was kind enough to let me play his entire collection of flutes - for which I feel very privelaged. My own Prowse came from him, at a very reasonable price after he "felt sorry for me" when I sold my previous flute.........

David Migoya wrote:Since we're not wasting away, alone, sickly and cranky and caustic.....you're right....we can't be bothered.....as we have many other more important things to do.

That was totally uncalled for and in very poor taste.

I don't know about the flute but £339 per person at Sol Pelicanos looks like a great deal - go for it!

...but isn't it a basket case? :twisted: M How dare you - Glinjack has copyright that phrase and will sue you for its illegal use. I believe he also holds the copyright to "a bundle of firewood" and "Sweet Jesus, that's a bag of sh*te" - but he doesn't use the latter that often!

I didn't like The Tass in Edinbourgh though. I met there with an old friend who plays whistles and pipes. There were 9 fiddlers playing. Nothing wrong with them, but they seemed to be really concentrated about learning tunes, looked like a beginners class. We listened for an hour with our cases at ...

Cathy Wilde wrote:So I'll play this tune:

I Have No Money.

A you of all people should follow it with that well known tune "And I Have Too Many Flutes Already"