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I forgot to include my name. it's Mike Meyerstein

£2600 or Euro2900, plus carriage. This is a 6-key, simple-system, block-mounted flute in D, made by Stephane Morvan in blackwood, in excellent condition. It is a large-holed, Pratten type of flute (I think it is a copy of a Boosey, that had keys by TK Henderson). The keys and the socket-support ring...

I did take out shipping insurance for the flute to an amount above the purchase value, but I don't have any way of proving that the cracks weren't pre-existing, other than by swearing on a stack of bibles. Also, the flute was extremely well packaged, each section in a zip-lock bag, then in the woode...

Yes; the girl playing the flute was only posing for the photo. She's my daughter and yes, she does have a regular boyfriend already.

I am sad to hear from the buyer that the flute has developed two cracks (one in the top cap and one at the top of the head joint) on its journey to the USA.