My Latest eBay flute

Irish Flute
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Hi,
Here is my latest eBay flute; it is made in Paris around 1830’s by
Thibouville Pere & fils. The keywork are silver, mounted on little creasent plates. Had to make one of them,can you guess which one is new? The rings on the Barrel are replacements, made from a Hippo tooth! Smells like a trip to the dentist, when you are cutting it.

Here is the before photo, this is what it looked like Thursday..

So even "fire wood"can be restored!



Haven’t got a tune out of it yet, still don’t know how the tuning is.

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fair play to you, another old one rescued!
where did you acquire the hippo tooth?

wouldn’t fancy being a hippo dentist myself - i hear they’ve awful breath.

cheers,
dave

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Beautiful job, Jon. Congratulations. If it doesn’t play beautifully for you, it’s just god-damn ungrateful! Can we have sound clips when you do get it speaking?

4

I popped down to Africa and bagged me one! No, I bought it at the Boone trading co.

5

Thanks, it will be interesting to see what the tuning is on a early French flute.
I will try to get my recording equipment to work…
:boggle:

6

Nice C key replacement. Did you have to replace a lot of posts as well?

Kevin Krell

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Thanks, no all the posts were there luckily, I just had to re-attach them. The C key got a whole new plate, as the other one melted down.. :blush: