They estimate it to go for 50-70 thousand dollars, so you need both a lot of cash and a pretty serious case of WHOA:
Lot # 242: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (T.V. SERIES, 1987 - 1994) - Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) Ressikan Flute, Box and Costume Continuity Script
Picard's whistle prop from TNG going up for auction
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Re: Picard's whistle prop from TNG going up for auction
And it says the "flute" doesn't make any musical sounds...
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Re: Picard's whistle prop from TNG going up for auction
To me it's conspicuous consumption. I mean, sure, it's an awesome trophy for your collection if you're a Star Trek maven and a whistler, but it strikes me as fetishism when a far cheaper (and working) instrument would do. Plus you'd have to insure it, and it's not even art. Not really. Now, a Water Weasel? Hell, yeah. I totally get paying through the nose for that, even if it means your whelps go without shoes. But then I've never had the theater bug of my siblings; call me a philistine. To each their own, I guess...Caj wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 8:15 pm They estimate it to go for 50-70 thousand dollars, so you need both a lot of cash and a pretty serious case of WHOA:
Lot # 242: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (T.V. SERIES, 1987 - 1994) - Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) Ressikan Flute, Box and Costume Continuity Script
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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How much just for the box?
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Re: Picard's whistle prop from TNG going up for auction
I got hit with one of them space probes once. I woke up on a doomed planet, and lived most of a century there. After a while I could play the whistle, but I didn't have one £70,000 one. I had 700 ten dollar ones. And I could play the Skye Boat Song the right way. So now I'm just waiting to wake up on the bridge of my starship. I'll let you all know how that turns out.
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There is at least one long thread in the C&F archives about this whistle. I was one of the people who thought I'd heard it was a Copeland and someone noted that it was not. Somewhere in that thread was a Chiffer who was the consultant for the creation of this prop. My memory is short on details. But if anyone wants to dig...
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"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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Ytliek is a cat??
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Re: Picard's whistle prop from TNG going up for auction
This is the latest ... viewtopic.php?p=1239260#p1239260busterbill wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:18 pmThere is at least one long thread in the C&F archives about this whistle.