I’m offering a boxwood 6-key (all pewter plugs) Goulding & D’Almaine flute. This lovely flute is an excellent player with very good A = 440 tuning. The tone is exceedingly lovely and the response is grand. Plays very much like a medium holed Rudall. But I’m not a keyed flute kind of a guy. The foot keys really crowd my fat fingers. This is the flute that Jon C. Bought off of Pat Olwell. Pat repaired the crack in the barrel. The cap has a crack through the ivory, but is intact.
Here are some pictures, the long one is Jon’s. Just click on the thumbnails to see the pictures in full size.
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I don’t really know for sure when the flute was made, could be after 1850. If you look at the barrel inscription from the first thumbnail; you will see Late written under the Goulding & D’Almaine Co. This means the flute was made after Gouldings death and before D’Almaine removed his name from the company. This is all well after Potter left the company.
This flute has medium sized toneholes, where as most of the earlier Goulding * D’Almaines that I’ve seen have small holes. Jon C. recently bought one of these. Here’s a picture of it:
This really is a great flute, I could keep and play just this one. But for me the keys are superfluous and in the way. I’ve been playing it with the C-keys removed from the foot (true Irish style)! This renders the flute as a typical 4-key flute (I’ll occasionally use a long C when playing classical music, but never have used a long F).
The intonation is very good! I play the flute @ A = 440 with the slide pulled out just past the first slide ring-mark. The A & B are good, easy to push them sharp though. The D is about 20 cents flat if I don’t overblow it (push it up to a hard D). The F is also about 20 cents flat, typical of medium/smaller holed Rudalls.
I worry about reporting results like this. Migoya once referred to himself as “The Man with Lips of Steel”, well my lips are more like rubber, possibly sometimes JELL-O. So my results are far from absolute.
However I will unequivocally state: This flute is exceedingly easy to get along with (Amiable ).
This flute is real nice, I would buy it back, but with 20 something flutes, and I now have another D’Almaine… The flute is loud and responsive, as I recall. It is surprising, when you play it, as you think of Boxwood as being a mellow and soft tone.
This renders the flute as a typical 4-key flute (I’ll occasionally use a long C when playing classical music, but never have used a long F).
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