http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=47102&item=7321001135&rd=1
It’s got a whole lot of keys. Weird ones. What notes are those really long ones for? I guess the one going downwards is for a low B or something? How about all those ones going upwards? I haven’t seen a flute like this before. Maybe that just shows me to be inexperienced, but I’m curious. Anyone know?
It’s a german flute
It has the normal 8 keys, plus (for what I can see)
those instruments were very common at the end of 19th century, some of them are sometimes referred to as “Nach meyer”, “Meyer system” or “reform system”.
In general, the sound is a bit dull, and not very powerful. I know some people on that forum who own german flutes and are happy with them.
They’re not very expensive in general.
(edited to add a key I hadn’t seen)
Ah. Thank you.
Those really long keys on that flute are weirdly interesting-looking. Mabey it was originally made for a person with a disability like arthritis…just a guess.
Reaaaally long keys :
This monster goes to low G.
(It’s not the first time it’s on this forum… 
)
That’s so cool!
It would make a nice lamp though…
I want one. 
The one on ebay definatley looks like a Meyer copy to me also. It was probably made in a factory the quiality could range from good to Pakistani it is really hard to say without playing it.
Well it’s a viennese Ziegler. Those with a low G are called “panaulons” and are very hard to find. I saw one in Paris years ago.
Viennese flutes are sought after those days by classical musicians… I saw recently several performances of romantic orchestral music using period instruments, including flutes by Ziegler and Koch, another great austrian maker.
If you really want a low G viennese (are you sure??? 
) maybe you could ask those makers, who make viennese flutes copy:
That is one killer foot! I wonder how the balance of the flutes is, I guess it wouldn’t be head heavy! I wonder what the weight of this flute is, it looks like it could use some wheels on the end of it to cart it around!
Jon
If the bore is that of a normal D flute, wouldn’t the low end be very weak and tough to hit?
yeah but if anyone pointed out your weak sound you could just club them to death with that thing
You know how many times I have dreamed of being able to play all the stuff I could play on Mandolin on the Flute. But they are just a little (like a few thousand euros which is even more in my currencey US) out of my price range. It looks like it has a large bore oh man I still want one I must find a way.
Yeah, and the 4000 euro flute goes only to Bb! A G would be a special order
I think it would be much less expensive to work really hard on your third octave and just play the fiddle and mandolin tunes one octave higher…
It’s true it would be really great to be able to play the low notes on “Martin Wynne’s” or “Farewell to Eirin”…
My bodhran playing friend does all the clubbing when I tell him to. He’s got some massive bones as well, don’t mess with me in a session 