Just thought it would be fun to know what everyone is playing these days.
Currently I play:
Cocuswood Hudson Pratten #221 (1840s?)
Firth, Pond & Co. w/ Abell HJ (1840s?)
Tipple Low ‘C’ (w/wedge and lip plate)
Arbo
- Rudall and Rose 4117 with Olwell headjoint (thanks Arbo!)
- Glenn Watson 8 key
Copley and Boegli 6-key in mopane; I’ve had it since 2004.
(Pictured to the left.)
Casey Burns Standard in blackwood, no slide–just the wood and nothing but the wood.
Casey Burns Standard in mopane, no slide–just the wood and nothing but the wood.
Copley blackwood, slide, semi-lined head.
Copley and Boegli 4-key blackwood in D
Will you say something about 2?
I’m on the road. Only got a whistle.
- Peter Noy keyless
- M&E Rudall
- Artley Wilkens Model Boehm flute
- Venus Boehm piccolo
- Tipple D flute
- Tipple G flute
- 9 Susato Whistles ranging from glass shattering high g to low A.
The G flute and the d and A whistles are getting all the attention these days. The G flute and the c whistle are my favorite.
I have a Casey Burns large- holed standard flute made of French boxwood that is perfect in every way.
Kurt
Lehart with 5 keys in blackwood.
Fecit anno 2009 
Hi,
I play a Grinter 8 key Rosewood flute at most all sessions. On special occasions I play a boxwood Rudall & Rose. and a Hawkes & Son Eb cocswood flute.
Large hole Noy with 6 keys.
Bryan Byrne 6-key D
Chris Wilkes 8-key C
Chris Wilkes 4-key Bb
Those are the three flutes I own and plan to keep playing for the rest of my life.
Aebi D Pratten with 8 keys.
Hamilton keyless blackwood D. (Sindt and Oz D whistles, Burke and Susato Bb ).
- Olwell fully keyed “Pratten model” D flute in blackwood, with tuning slide and unlined headjoint.
- Olwell unkeyed flute with Eb, D and C interchangable bodies, in blackwood, with tuning slide and lined headjoint.
- Martin Doyle all-wood D flute, without tuning slide, in blackwood
- Michael Grinter “Acanthus-Leaf Model” fully keyed D flute in blackwood (the works).
For the last year I’ve been playing the keyed Olwell almost exclusively, though the other flutes are also superb. I’m a lucky guy!
As for whistles, I travel with a set of Burke aluminum whistle in Eb, D, C, Bb, B and A. Eb is my favorite. I also travel with a low F Goldie/Overton, which is superb. When I am home in the USA and not travelling I enjoy playing my set of Sindt whistles, my favorites of which are the Eb and C.
Again, I am a very lucky guy.
Rudall and Rose #4009.
Or when I’m feeling mellow, a Patrick Olwell keyless C with unlined headjoint.
Olwell keyless Nicholson all-rosewood, Olwell keyless Rudall w/partially lined head for Irish music
Noy 1-key small-holed flute for English music
Olwell Rottenburgh, Cameron Grenser, both A415, for early/baroque music
McGee 6-key Rudall 5088